REMAINS

• "On another occasion, we get sent out" - begins in media res, this is normal
• "probably armed, possibly not" - sense of uncertainty, parallelism mirrors the constant uncertainty soldiers face daily in conflict
• "Well myself and somebody else and somebody else are all of the same mind" - soldiers have bee trained to detach themselves from their emotions
• "I see every round as it rips through his life" - verb 'rips' highlights the brutal violence of war
• "So we've hit this looter a dozen times / he's there on the ground, sort of inside out," - visceral imagery + colloquial language which is informal, indifferent tone towards the situation
• "pain itself, the image of agony"
• "and tosses hit guts back into his body" - visceral imagery suggests this scenario is common
• "End of story, except not really" - caesura adds dramatic pause which reflects how this will haunt him for the rest of his life
• "His blood-shadow stays on the street"
• "Then I'm home on leave." - monosyllabic
• "and he bursts through the doors of the bank" - sense of abruptness and a lack of control over his own mind suggesting PTSD
• "And the drink and drugs won't flush him out" - referencing substance abuse highlighting the life-long effects of fighting in conflict
• "dug in behind enemy lines" - military imagery as a metaphor for the 'looter' being a fixed memory for the soldier
• "sun-stunned, sand-smothered land" - compound adjectives suggesting all of the soldiers positive memories are tainted by the violence of conflict
• "his bloody life in my bloody hands" - repetition reflects the eternal suffering for the soldier