The Manhunt
- Created by: Qiao-Chu
- Created on: 19-03-13 20:00
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- The Manhunt
- Context
- Simon Armitage 1963 West Yorkshire
- Strong concern for social issues
- Strong sense of rhythm and metre
- 15 collections of poetry, films, television, radio, lyrics and translations
- Colloquial and autobiographical
- Subject
- Perspective of the wife of a soldier who has been badly injured at war and returned home
- Physical and mental effects of living with injuries when on active service in the armed forces
- Structure
- Series of mostly unrhymed couplets
- Shows fragmentation - feelings of soldier's wife as she tries to understand her 'new' husband
- Phases of wife's search for answers from her injured husband
- Poem ends with search being brought to a close
- Language
- Puns on the idea of hunting a criminal but actually wife's metaphorical search for a husband she has lost
- Prominent verbs to describe wife's search e.g. explore, handle and hold, mind and attend
- Careful subtle movements, patient care for mental state
- Husband's body metaphorical, inanimate objects
- Jaw is blown hinge so no longer open to her, cannot talk about experiences
- Collar bone damaged, porcelain - hard, easily chipped, cold
- Sensual and loving verbs showing intimacy and keen devotion from wife
- Rungs of broken ribs show closely observed detail, effort and gradual progression
- Attitudes, Themes and Ideas
- Patience and care of love, methodical and thorough in search
- Cost of war on soldiers
- Grazed heart can be literal wound or experiences mean he cannot talk to wife so relationship affected
- Metal bullet is foetus as if couple had a child
- Sweating, unexploded mine buried deep in his mind - mental not physical, threatens problems at any time - wife's delicacy and care
- Not right or wrongs of war but impact on one relationship
- Comparisons
- In Paris With You - unwilling to discuss experiences of past, keen to focus on present
- The Farmer's Bride - Manhunt is woman exploring feelings for man, others from male point of view
- Context
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