The Manhunt by Simon Armitage
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- Created on: 13-05-19 11:03
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- Manhunt by Simon Armitage
- Key ideas/themes
- Time
- The gradual trusting of someone
- Laura is slowly getting to know her husband again, and he is slowly letting her find out
- The delicacy of time, how one fragile thing can actually mean a lot
- The gradual trusting of someone
- War
- The effect, mentally and physically war can have on a person
- Physically wounded and scarred
- "blown hinge of his lower jaw", "damaged, porcelain collar bone"
- Mentally scarred also
- "unexploded mine buried deep in his mind"
- Fear, worry, PTSD, anxiousness
- How it can affect the people around them
- "only then would he let me", repetition of "only then"
- Physically wounded and scarred
- The effect, mentally and physically war can have on a person
- Love
- The intimacy between two people, and how this can be changed
- slowly getting to know each other again, intimacy
- intimacy of tracing the body
- The intimacy between two people, and how this can be changed
- Time
- Context
- Armitage saw a Channel Four documentary on a couple
- A man and his wife re-united after he returns from being a soldier in Bosnia
- From the perspective of the wife
- Structure/tone
- Broken up lines could represent the small steps she is taking, and how long it is taking
- brings the audience with her, tracing eventually to the main problem
- couplets within the stanzas possibly representing the couple together, and despite what has happened they will not be separated
- rhyming at the end of the lines gives it a regular rhythm, and helps to separate the stanzas from each other, showing that they are separate steps in coming closer to him
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- Broken up lines could represent the small steps she is taking, and how long it is taking
- Language
- the slow movement, and slowly being able to explore his body, showing hesitance
- "only then", "explore", "mind and attend"
- the movements used are gentle and soft yet intimate
- Perhaps showing the fragility of the soldier
- the movements used are gentle and soft yet intimate
- "only then", "explore", "mind and attend"
- Many similes/metaphors that show the damage on his body
- "frozen river which ran through his face"
- "blown hinge of his lower jaw"
- possibly a metaphor for how he doesn't talk about how he feels
- "parachute silk of his punctured lung"
- "Widened" shows how he is slowly letting her in, and becoming more comfortable
- "foetus of metal", discovering the cause and beginning
- "tightened and closed", fear and worry, root of issue
- the slow movement, and slowly being able to explore his body, showing hesitance
- Key ideas/themes
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