Month: April 2016

I wouldn’t be a war photographer because it’s morally wrong, how you can see someone in danger or in prejudice and just standing there observing, it could add to the fact that they are being put under pressure, and can be a huge factor of humiliation to the opressed. It also come with a great risk to yourslef. The situation can turn, and something can happen to you, or you could get killed by accident.

The order that a poet decides to put their sentences in can affect the meaning of a poem.

“On another occasion we get sent out” He seems relaxed, he doesn’t seem bothered at the beginning of the poem. He’s telling a story. “His bloody life in my bloody hands.” The speaker has become depressed.

The last verse is two lines so it stands out. This helps the poet to focus on the guilt of the speaker.

“The drink and drugs won’t flush him out-/ he’s here in my head when I close my eyes” The enjambement helps the poet contain his point about how the man cannot get away from the image of the dead man in his head.

The structure of Armitage’s poem communicates a feeling of guilt. In the beginning, the speaker seems calm and relaxed, the first part just explains the situation. Followed by a violent turn  “…hit this looter a dozen times and he’s there on the ground, sort of inside out… tosses his guts back into his body”. From this point we get a sense that Armitage starts to feel guilty. “End of story, except not really” is a powerful phrase

Words and Their Suggestions – This is when you take a word and write about another meaning it may have.

Images Created by Sentences – This is when a particular phrase or sentence creates a picture in the reader’s imagination.

Particular Language Techniques – This is when you highlight a particular language technique and how it relates to your point.

“His bloody life in my bloody hands”

“…tosses his guts back into his body…”

“…tosses his guts back into his body. Then he’s carted off in the back of a lorry.”

How Does Armitage Use Language To Show That The Protagonist Feels Guilty In ‘Remains‘ ?

The protagonist feeling guilty is clearly seen when Armitage says “…his bloody life in my bloody hands”. This shows that it’s a big responsibility to have someone else’s life, taken away, in his hands. “Tosses his guts back into his body…” shows how gruesome and violent the situation was. Particularly the way it was described, like it wasn’t something major, and it’s something that often happens. It was like they were used to thing as violent as that happening. Armitage then also uses rhyme to enforce the severity of the situation.

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“I don’t want her go hold the baby Richard… She… I don’t want the baby go catch anything.”

-People that are higher class think that they are cleaner and safer than lower class.

“I want a Mecanne set.”

-Highlights the needs of the kids.

Class is shown in the first part of the play when the job of Mrs Johnstone is a cleaner, that speaks for itself. They both come from completely different backgrounds and cultures. Mrs Lyons speaks in a more formal manner but Mrs Johnstone speaks more informal. Mrs Johnstone struggles financially whereas Mrs Lyons has too much money.

Mrs Johnstone currently has 7 children and is struggling to get by, she can’t afford to pay the milkman.

A week later, she landed a job cleaning at Mrs Lyons house.

They then talk about how Mrs Lyons  can’t have children, and on the other hand Mrs Johnstone can’t stop have children.

Mrs Johnstone then visits the gynaecologist and gets told that she has a twin. This comes as bad news because she could have just brushed by with one more child, but not two more.

Mrs Lyons persuades Mrs Johnstone to give one of her twins to her, and the time skips to when Mrs Lyons receives the baby from Mrs Johnstone.