remains

• remains:

  ”his bloody life in my bloody hands”


  ~ metaphor

  ~end of poem, sense of despair and hope of resolution.

  ~overall he is guilty.

  ~PTSD is taking over him, the image and thought will torture him for his whole life.
• remains:

  ”well myself and somebody else and somebody else”


  ~repetition

  ~ambiguos: he’s keeping them anonymous for reasons,

  OR

  :he doesn’t want to remember,

  OR

  : he is using the tone of rush, wanting to move on,
• remains:

  ”his blood-shadow stays on the street”


  ~metaphor.

  ~PTSD has taken over, all he can picture is the blood, connotates death.

  ~he will never look at that spot the same, it’s stained.
• remains:

  ”sort of inside out”

  ~metaphor.

  ~dehumanise.

  ~no respect for the death in battle.

  ~struggling to talk about it.