Remains by Simon Armitage Bronze Can you find

• Remains by Simon Armitage Bronze • Can you find examples of casual conversational language? What’s the effect of writing about this event in this style? • Select the three most powerful images of violence. Identify and language devices and explain their effect. • Select 4 powerful verbs throughout the poem. How do they convey the ideas in the poem? • Which line fills you with the most sympathy for the soldier? • Can you identify and explain the use of present tense in the first two stanzas? • In Lines 21 -23 find the X 3 verbs to show he can’t escape from the events. • Silver • Read the opening line and consider the effect. What’s the link here with ‘Bayonet Charge’? • Can you find two examples of alliteration and explain how and why they are used? • Consider the ambiguity and alternative interpretation of the title ‘Remains’ and the use of ‘bloody’ at the end. • Can you find examples of language used to dehumanize the victim? What does this show us about the effect of violence on the soldier. • Identify and explain the metaphor used in stanza 5 to show he’s going over events in his mind. • Gold • Identify and explain the effect of the shift from using ‘We’ (1 st person plural pronoun) to ‘I’ (1 st person singular pronoun) • What’s the effect of the caesura (full stop mid line) in line 20? • Can you identify and explain the metaphor in stanza 5 to show he cannot escape the guilt of the events? • Structure: investigate the rhyme, rhythm and sentence length in the poem and consider why Armitage has used this style. Then look at the final 2 lines and consider the reason for the difference here. • In line 27 select the interesting adjectives which show the conflict has effected both the literal external landscape and the metaphorical internal landscape of his mind.