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Description
Mind Map by Spike Richards, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Spike Richards
about 8 years ago
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Remains
- Context
- A group of soldiers shoot a looter trying to
rob a bank. He dies and his death is described
in graphic detail
- One of the soldiers, the narrator,
cannot get over his guilt
- PTSD
- PTSD
- Based on an account from a British
soldier who served in Iraq
- A group of soldiers shoot a looter trying to
rob a bank. He dies and his death is described
in graphic detail
- BY SIMON ARMITAGE
- Language
- Graphic Imagery
- The looter's death is described in gory, graphic detail
- The imagery illustrates the horrors
of war but also how the soldier has
become desensitised to violence
- The looter's death is described in gory, graphic detail
- Colloquial
- Frequent colloquial language in the
first four stanzas makes the poem
seem more anecdotal
- Trivialises the looter's death
- Frequent colloquial language in the
first four stanzas makes the poem
seem more anecdotal
- Repetition
- Reflects the way the killing is
repeated in the soldier's mind
- Reflects the way the killing is
repeated in the soldier's mind
- Graphic Imagery
- Form and Structure
- No regular line length or rhyme scheme
is reminiscent of a story or anecdote
- Links to colloquialisms
- Links to colloquialisms
- The speaker starts with a plural pronoun ("we")
but later changes to a singular pronoun ("I")
- This makes the poem more personal
and almost like a confession
- This makes the poem more personal
and almost like a confession
- In the final couplet (which is also the only two-line
stanza), both lines have the same metre
- This creates a sense of finality an suggests that
the soldiers guilt will stay with him forever
- This creates a sense of finality an suggests that
the soldiers guilt will stay with him forever
- The poem begins as if it's going to be an amusing
anecdote but quickly becomes graphic and violent
- There's a clear volta at line 17
where the soldier's tone and
thoughts are altered by his guilt
- No regular line length or rhyme scheme
is reminiscent of a story or anecdote
- Linking to Other Poems
- Effects of Conflict
- Reality of Conflict
- Memory
- Guilt
- Indiviual Experiences
- Effects of Conflict
- Important Quotes
- "legs it", "sort of inside out",
"tosses", "carted off"
- Colloquialisms trivialise looter's death
- Colloquialisms trivialise looter's death
- "guts", "dug in behind enemy
lines", "I see broad daylight on the
other side", "blood shadow"
- Gruesome, gory, graphic details
described casually emphasises how
violence has become part of the soldier's
everyday life
- Gruesome, gory, graphic details
described casually emphasises how
violence has become part of the soldier's
everyday life
- Development of sense of
responsibility: "all" and
"three" repeated, becomes
"in my hands" later.
- The poem becomes more personal after the
line 17 volta: "End of story, except not really"
- The poem becomes more personal after the
line 17 volta: "End of story, except not really"
- "legs it", "sort of inside out",
"tosses", "carted off"
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