remains

• remains is about a solider feeling guilty about killing someone in war
• simion alteridge wants us to think about the moral consequences of war and the trauma soldiers face
• “possibly armed possibly not”
• the prom explores the events in a soldiers life which in turn triggers PTSD, the memory hurts him more than the event itself
• the colloquial nature of the speakers voice is used to create a sense of heightened realism to the piece
• the poet suggests a conflict in the speakers mind, an avoidance of the reality of what happned which haunts him
• set in iraq in the battle of basra in 2003