Remains

• Key Message:

  Aims to highlight the unseen effects of the war on an individual e.g. PTSD. Even though a person may appear well on the surface, they may have psychological trauma
• Context:

  Set in the Iraq War. Armitage wrote his ‘Not Dead’ collection of poetry for the ‘soldiers who come back in body, but not wholly in mind.’
• "One of my mates goes by and tosses his guts back into his body"
• "End of story, except not really. His blood shadow stays on the street"
• "His bloody life in my bloody hands"