1. His bloody life in my bloody hands
PTSD

2. Big Question
How does Armitage present ideas about conflict and trauma?

3. Literacy Task
The speaker reccounts how he and ‘somebody else and some body else’ openned fire on a looter who may or may not Have been armed. They shot him dead and one of them put the mans ‘guts back into his body’ before hes carted away.
Source: BBC website

4. Literacy Task
The speaker recounts how he and ‘somebody else and somebody else’ opened fire on a looter who may or may not have been armed. They shot him dead and one of them put the man’s ‘guts back into his body’ before he’s carted away.
Source: BBC website

6. Conflict
Doubt
Trauma
Warzone
Decision
Regret
Danger
Memory
Nightmare
Uncertainty
Suffering

7. Big Question
How does Armitage present ideas about conflict and trauma?

8. Big Question
How does Armitage present ideas about conflict and trauma?
Tone
Metaphor
Irony
Enjambment
Armitage chooses to use a strikingly colloquial, conversational voice in the poem; this has the effect of emphasising the speaker’s identity as a British soldier…