Remains

What could the title ‘remains’ mean?

• Remains of his life, which is full of guilt

• Remains of the dead man

• Remains of the haunting memory

• Remains of the looters

What does the graphic detail in stanza 3 and 4 do?

• Conveys the trauma the person carries with him - shows what the soldiers have to carry home with them

• Conveys the pain the man is going through

Relation to power and conflict;

• Set partially in a war zone

• The persona is fighting an internal conflict - he's powerless to stop it

• The bullet is powerful

what are the premises of remains?

• Guilt - haunted by the guilt of killing someone

• Conflict - he's acting under orders and taking part in conflict in another country

• Death - man’s death

What is the tone and mood?

• fast pace to the poem - like a confession

• depressing

What is ‘bloody hands’ a reference to?

• Macbeth

• Tempest

• Romeo and Juliet

“Sort of inside-out” -

• Too graphic to describe

• His clothes are inside out

“On another occasion” - implies multiple unpleasant memories.

• True

• False

The Soldier feels guilty.

• True

• False

Where is there sibilance?

• Stays, street

• Tosses his guts

• Rips through his life