The Manhunt - Simon Armitage
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- Created on: 08-01-20 14:26
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- The Manhunt - Simon Armitage
- Key Quotes
- 'Only then would he let me trace'
- Shows his recovery is slow and painstaking.
- 'Grazed heart'
- The bullet on grazed his heart but left emotional grazes.
- 'Sweating, unexploded mine'
- Imagery of the 'sweating' bomb which is in his mind. Also links to his PTSD.
- 'After the first phase'
- Could be the start of a love poem. The start of a new relationship and falling in love.
- 'Then, only then, did I come close'
- Shows the wife's realisation that her husbands scars emotionally are worse than the physical ones.
- 'Only then would he let me trace'
- Context
- Armitage has no first hand-experience with war.
- He wanted share real experiences of the damage war causes.
- This is a modern war (Bosnia 1992-‘95)
- Eddie served as a peace-keeper in Bosnia.
- The soldier is the silent subject.
- Shows how physical scars can be fixed but mental and emotional scars are permanent.
- Armitage uses the voice of Laura to show the effects war has on soldiers families.
- Armitage uses the experience of Eddie.
- Themes
- Love and relationships
- The soldiers wife is sensitive in her approach.
- She has to get to know him again
- She slowly understands what he's going through.
- Pain and suffering
- Effects physically and emotionally.
- Emotional scarring
- Unstable
- Effects of war
- Effects last a lot longer than the war.
- Psychological injuries
- Has effected relationships with loved ones.
- Conflict makes soldiers unrecognisable
- Love and relationships
- Links to other poems
- The soldier
- Dulce de Decorum Est
- Use of similes and metaphors
- She walks in beauty
- Living Space
- Valentine
- Use of similes and metaphors
- A Wife in London
- As imperceptibly as grief
- Last lines can leave you with doubt or round of the poem
- Key Quotes
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