Q. What do you put at the end of a poem?
One way you can end a poem is in dialogue and/or the speaker’s voice. With this ending, the reader ends up being closer to the experience. The situation is brought to life through the speech of a subject within the world of the poem and gives the work a more intimate feel— which is what you’d want to happen in a poem.
Q. What is an example of Enjambment in poetry?
Enjambment is the continuation of a sentence or clause across a line break. For example, the poet John Donne uses enjambment in his poem “The Good-Morrow” when he continues the opening sentence across the line break between the first and second lines: “I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I / Did, till we loved?
Q. Why do we use Enjambment?
By using enjambment, a poet is able to effectively pull the reader along from one line to the next and establish a fast rhythm or pace for a poem. Enjambment is the opposite of this, and allows a sentence or other structure to continue past the end of the line and continue for one or more lines.
Q. How is PTSD presented in remains?
‘Remains’ is based on the experiences of a soldier who served in Basra in Iraq. He suffered severe PTSD as a result of his experiences and the poem recalls one particular event where the soldier shot the looter of a bank and was left with horrendous flashbacks reliving the moment of the man’s death.
Q. How is violence presented in remains?
‘Bayonet Charge’ and ‘Remains’ are deeply disturbing, violent poems that deal with the intimate effects of war upon the individual soldier. This is gruesome imagery without any poetic gloss, in fact the man becomes ‘pain itself, the image of agony’.
Q. How is suffering presented in remains?
Within Remains, Simon Armitage, who is widely known for focusing on physiological health and for creating a documentary of young soldier in the height of the conflict occurring in Afghanistan, presents the theme of suffering through the personal view of a young, regimented soldier, by sharing a scene which had clearly …
Q. How is suffering shown in war photographer?
James Nachtwey is the war photographer being described. The metaphor used to describe the amount of suffering and agony found in Nachtwey’s photographs of war elicits ideas that the photographer is “alone” in a room filled with so much suffering, pain and death that he simply cannot detach himself anymore.
Q. How is suffering presented in war photographer and remains?
At one point in War Photographer, Duffy uses sibilance alongside metaphors when he says, ‘spools of suffering set out in ordered rows. ‘ The use of the ‘s’ sound highlights the imagery and suggests graves or bodies ‘in ordered rows.
