poetry

• the emigree

  someone who had to leave their country as a child
• exposure


  terrrifying experience of a night in the trenches in ww1
• "filled paperweight"


  the emigree
• "possibly armed,possibly not"


  remains
• "our brains ache"


  exposure
• "what are we doing here?"


  exposure
• "his bloody life in my bloody hands"


  remains
• physcological effects of different military experiences

  remains & exposure
• strong & weakening effects of memory


  remains & emigree
• a soldier haunted by his involvement in a shooting of a bank looter

  remains
• exposure


  8 stanzas but no real progression- ends cyclical
• exposure


  war and nature takes away his identity
• exposure


  "our brains ache" begins in medias res
• exposure


  "our ghosts drag us home" mentally killed when he goes home
• remains


  begins as if it seems its going to be an amusing anecdote but turns into graphic description
• remains


  reflect emotions experienced by soldiers
• remains


  "his blood shadown remained on the streets" the memory still haunts him and remained in his mind
• remains


  moral propaganda to bring awarness to PTSD
• the prelude


  one stanza long emphasizing the overwhelming power of nature- no breaks to make reader feel breathless
• prelude


  "huge peak, black and huge" repetition of childish adjectives reflecting the speakers temporary loss of words
• prelude


  exposes power of nature and ho it drives individuals morality to corrupt
• prelude and ozymandias


  eventual loss of power
• emigree


  speakers memory of the city grows and solidifies as the poem progresses
• emigree and checking out me history

  both explore the feeling of conflict over the individuals identity as a result of displacement and historical innaccuracy
• checking out me history


  alternates between historical/ fictional figures from caribbean and british culture to highlight the difference between them
• checking out me history

  "bandage up me eye" njury like connotations implying the speaker is hurt by his sheltered upbringing
• cotmh and emigree


  the idea that your identity is shaped by where you originate from
• comh and emigree


  in 1st person enabling the reader to relate to the identities they construct on a personal and direct way