Remains

• cyclical structure


  • shows how the trauma is unescapable, this will never leave him mentally
• "his bloody life, in my bloody hand"


  • repitition of bloody shows that all he can see
  • the personal pronoun shows how he is taken all of the guilt for the death of the soldier
• "drinks and drugs won't flush him out"


  • shows how desperate he is to get rid of the image
  • represents him as a sickness, he is ill after fighting in the war
• He's on the ground, sort of inside out"


  • the casual language shows how hard it is to describe the horrors of war
  • This is a brutal image that the soldier is exposed to, shows how bad war is
• remains


  • presents the effect of war on domestic life, it is based on a true story in the Iraqi war.
  • Can link to poems about domestic life and horror of war