![]() In this case the looter's blood stains the street-note the wording of blood-shadow as if the dead man is still alive with a shadow intact-and it so happens that the same soldier walks over it week after week on patrol.Looter shooters are probably my favorite genre of games that aren’t MMOs. Let's all move on.īut the speaker, the guy with the gun, can't move on. The soldiers by shooting this man have restored peace and kept the street safe. With the looter dead the incident might be considered closed, done with, sorted. The first line of the fifth stanza is a turning point in the poem. A lorry is British English for truck.Īll in all a sorry end for the victim who we can only assume was a poor man unable to stop himself from taking money out of a ruined bank building. And the last line contains carted which suggests that an animal is being loaded up for disposal. ![]() ![]() The use of the verb tosses signifies an almost couldn't care less approach, like tossing an item on a fire casually for example. means to run off, which further reinforces the idea that the speaker is an ordinary person, an everyday individual. Because the speaker is talking as if in conversation with a third party, the leap seems natural enough, and the language used is colloquial British (local, familiar, streetwise). Enjambment, when a line runs on into the next without punctuation yet maintaining the sense, helps build momentum.Īll of a sudden we're plunged into the drama. This person is either a member of the police or security force or army and the situation potentially is extremely serious. The reader has no idea what that specific job might be but is given a strong clue in the second line, which dynamically energises this first stanza. The informal opening line is spoken by someone representing a group or number of other people- we got sent out-as if they are already in the middle of explaining their involvement in an event or routine or job. The main theme of the poem is the psychological effect of war-trauma, remorse and response.The title itself, 'Remains', could be seen as a pun, used by the poet to mean human remains and the psycho-emotional wound that stays with the individual soldier.This mirrors some of the symptoms of illness so many war veterans experience. However, the syntax (the way clauses and grammar 'ride' the form) produces undercurrents and hesitation which brings a sense of instability and uncertainty. ![]() ![]()
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