Remains

• What quote uses caesura and graphic imagery while talking about dreams, showing the events are constantly in the narrator's head?

  'Dream, and he's torn apart by a dozen rounds'
• What quote uses enjambment and graphic imagery to display the extent of the narrator's guilt and how it cannot be contained?

  'I swear/

  I see every round as it rips through his life'
• What quote conveys the casual treaent fellow soldiers give to the dead body, showing how they have become desensitised?

  'tosses his guts back into his body'
• What quote shows how the narrator cannot convey his experience in an adult way?

  'sort of inside out'
• What line is repeated to show how the event is constantly replaying in the narrator's mind?

  'Probably armed, possibly not'
• What quote shows that the speaker tries to justify the killing of the man, but is still doubtful as to whether it was the right decision?

  'Probably armed, possibly not'
• What quote uses colloquial language to show how soldiers lose their identity during war?

  'Well myself and somebody else and somebody else'
• What quote shows how soldiers have become desensitised to violence during war by using colloquial language?

  'Well myself and somebody else and somebody else'
• What quote uses a description of something physical to highlight how the event lingers in the narrator's mind?

  'his blood-shadow stays on the street'
• What quote uses one word to mask another, more sinister word?

  'his blood-shadow stays on the street'
• What quote uses double entendre of a word to reinforce violence and his guilt?

  'his bloody life in my bloody hands'
• What quote references lady Macbeth?

  'his bloody life in my bloody hands'
• What quote indicates that the memory of the person's death lingers under the narrator's skin, and is impossible to get rid of?

  'and the drink and the drugs won't flush him out'
• What quote uses a verb to imply that the memory of the looter's death is unpleasant and needs to be disposed of?

  'and the drink and the drugs won't flush him out'
• What quote shows the narrator has resorted to extreme methods to try and forget the death of the looter?

  'and the drink and the drugs won't flush him out'
• What poem and quote can you link to 'I swear/I see every round as it rips through his life'?

  Exposure - 'all their eyes are ice'

  The eyes are supposed to be the window to the soul, so by comparing them to 'ice', the author indicates that the soldiers are dead inside and have become desensited and cold.
• What does 'I swear/I see every round as it rips though his life' show?

  By showing that all the narrator can see is the events that caused the looter's death, the author indicates that the narrator has lost touch on reality and become less of the person he once was as he con no longer find beauty in life. The present tense 'see' shows how the events still affect him to this day, and have changed him.
• What poem and quote can you compare 'myself and somebody else and somebody else' to?

  Exposure - 'slowly our ghosts drag home'

  Both poems show how the soldiers have been dehumanised from the war, becoming simply 'somebody else' or 'ghosts' of their former selves.
• What quote can you compare 'and the drink and the drugs won't flush him out' to?

  Exposure - 'all their eyes are ice'

  Both poems show how the events that the soldiers have witnessed have caused them to have visions that will stay with them for the rest of their lives.