The Manhunt by Simon Armitage Analysis
quick, bare minimum analysis of The Manhunt.
These annontations got me an estimated grade 7 when written in a formal structure and compared to another poem not just alone.
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- Created by: lou5820
- Created on: 06-05-17 17:13
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- The Manhunt
- "Manhunt"- searching for the old him?
- "After the first phase, after passionate nights an dintimate days,"- tryinging to ignite something they used to have
- "only then would he let me trace/the frozen river which ran through his face"- gentle, have to be close to truly understand the reality of hwta is going on in his mind."frozen river"- metaphor for a scar, why is it not flowing?
- "and handle and hold"- gentle, wedding vows
- "the damaged, porcelain collar bone,"- delicate fragile? comparing his bones to a hard but breakable material possibly may not only link physically but mentally
- "and mind and attend"- wedding vows almost again
- "the fractured rudderof shoulder-blade"- directing= rudder restricted?
- "the parachute silk of his punctured lung."- metaphorical, parachute creates resistance therefore maybe creating resistance towards his wife
- "only then could i bind the struts"- strengthening
- "and climb the rungs of his broken ribs,"- only then could she try and fix him.
- "and feel the hurt/ of his grazed heart"- trauma emphasised by wife
- "skirting"- evading
- "the foetus of metal"- developing, now he needs looking after?
- "Then i widened the search"- links to title
- "traced the scrring back to its source"- frozen river= extending the metaphor
- "unexploded mine/ buried deeep in his mind"- have to be careful not to set it off, concealed, serious impact,memories of the war, shows hes effected not only physically to reader
- "Then, and only then, did i come close."- alliteration, ambiguous, wife will never fully understand
- "unexploded mine/ buried deeep in his mind"- have to be careful not to set it off, concealed, serious impact,memories of the war, shows hes effected not only physically to reader
- "traced the scrring back to its source"- frozen river= extending the metaphor
- "Then i widened the search"- links to title
- "the foetus of metal"- developing, now he needs looking after?
- "skirting"- evading
- "and feel the hurt/ of his grazed heart"- trauma emphasised by wife
- "bind" and "climb"- internal rhyme
- "and climb the rungs of his broken ribs,"- only then could she try and fix him.
- "and feel the hurt/ of his grazed heart"- trauma emphasised by wife
- "skirting"- evading
- "the foetus of metal"- developing, now he needs looking after?
- "Then i widened the search"- links to title
- "traced the scrring back to its source"- frozen river= extending the metaphor
- "unexploded mine/ buried deeep in his mind"- have to be careful not to set it off, concealed, serious impact,memories of the war, shows hes effected not only physically to reader
- "Then, and only then, did i come close."- alliteration, ambiguous, wife will never fully understand
- "unexploded mine/ buried deeep in his mind"- have to be careful not to set it off, concealed, serious impact,memories of the war, shows hes effected not only physically to reader
- "traced the scrring back to its source"- frozen river= extending the metaphor
- "Then i widened the search"- links to title
- "the foetus of metal"- developing, now he needs looking after?
- "skirting"- evading
- "and feel the hurt/ of his grazed heart"- trauma emphasised by wife
- "and climb the rungs of his broken ribs,"- only then could she try and fix him.
- "and climb the rungs of his broken ribs,"- only then could she try and fix him.
- "only then could i bind the struts"- strengthening
- "the parachute silk of his punctured lung."- metaphorical, parachute creates resistance therefore maybe creating resistance towards his wife
- "the fractured rudderof shoulder-blade"- directing= rudder restricted?
- "and mind and attend"- wedding vows almost again
- "the damaged, porcelain collar bone,"- delicate fragile? comparing his bones to a hard but breakable material possibly may not only link physically but mentally
- "and handle and hold"- gentle, wedding vows
- "only then would he let me trace/the frozen river which ran through his face"- gentle, have to be close to truly understand the reality of hwta is going on in his mind."frozen river"- metaphor for a scar, why is it not flowing?
- "After the first phase, after passionate nights an dintimate days,"- tryinging to ignite something they used to have
- short stanzas
- Simon Armitage- soldier who was badly injured, voice of wife in poem, written for a documentary
- "Manhunt"- searching for the old him?
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