Poetry Across Time - Relationships - The Manhunt
- Created by: Sofalof
- Created on: 29-10-12 16:05
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- The Manhunt
- 'After the first phase,// after passionate nights and intimate days
- After the joys of being reunited
- 'frozen river'
- Is tense-is hiding something?
- Can't see emotion
- 'porcelain collar-bone'
- Delicate and fragile
- Like a war zone?
- 'fractured rudder'
- Damaged
- 'struts', 'rungs'
- Ladder-like she's climbing his ribs
- 'foetus'
- The emotional pain could develop and will never leave them
- Come home injured and had a bullet somewhere OR is metaphorical and is meant to be where he is hurting
- 'Then I widened the search'
- She looked for the source of his pain and for him
- Military term
- 'Then, and only then, did I come close'
- Finds how much he's hurting. Understands him
- Military couple
- He comes home and the wife has to find him again
- Military lexis
- 'parachute silk'
- 'blown hinge'
- Extended metaphor
- By Simon Armitage
- He went to Bosnia
- 'After the first phase,// after passionate nights and intimate days
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