1. What is life like as a soldier?

2. Remains
What are the connotations of this word? How does it link to conflict and war?
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Challenge – the poem comes from a collection of poems called ‘The Not Dead’ – how else could this link to ‘Remains’?

3. What is life like as a soldier? Can you add any further ideas?
What is life like as a soldier?
Watch first 2 mins of video
Can you add any further ideas?

4. The poems in ‘The Not Dead’ were written from the testimonies of ex-soldiers.
Watch from 46 mins to 51.35
“These are poems of survivors – the damaged, exhausted men who return from war in body but never, wholly, in mind.” Armitage

5. Find a quotation for each one.
What thoughts and feelings does Armitage convey in the poem?
Find a quotation for each one.

6. Compare the ways poets present ideas about conflict in ‘Remains’ and in one other poem from ‘Power and Conflict’
REMAINS
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Think – pair – share – complete planning table
Teacher to model / students write 1 comparative paragraph