Literature Poems; Simon Armitage

Attitudes, Ideas, Feelings of Speaker in Kid;

-Independence

-Truimphant; stepping away from Batman and no longer being Second Best

-Anger; Robin feeks angry and bitter that Batman deserted him

-Defiance; but he feels more confident now, he's defiant when he says "turned the corner"

Layout and Structure;

-Monologue

-A single stanza of 24 lines

-Pentmetres (10 syllables)

-Cliched phrases; used perhasps to boast

-Language and Poetic Devices;

-Alliteration

-Slang, naval slang; "wander leeward"

-Different styles, add humour to poem

-Imagery; shows contrast and emphaise "blue yonder" "ditched"

-Metaphor; "playing ball boy" shows game but also ferrying around for Batman

Poet's Meaning/Different Meanings;

-"Holy roll-me-over-in-the-clover" mocking the stereotypical good Batman in over exaggerated way.