Remains

• Structure of the poem?

  7 Quatrains, 1 three lines stanza
• Themes?

  Impact of conflict, physiological warfare, PTSD
• Context?


  Simon Armitage, collection of poems with same name, interviewed soldiers from Gulf War
• Best poem for comparison?

  Exposure
• "Tosses his guts back into his body."
• "His blood-shadow."
• "Probably armed, possibly not."
• Last line?


  "His bloody life in my bloody hands."