Manhunt

Question 1

Form / Structure

Answer 1

BLAZEN POETRY
- describes another’s body
STANZAS BROKEN UP
- each physical injury in isolation
- physical and mental trauma

Question 2

Imagery

Answer 2

THE FROZEN RIVER THAT RAN THROUGH HIS FACE
- echoes landscape of war
FOETUS OF METAL
- bullet physically 
- lack of emotion
 UNEXPLODED MINE
-mind?
TRACED THE SCARRING BACK TO ITS SOURCE
- war
- the bullet

Question 3

Language

Answer 3

Repetition of “only then”
- implies lack of trust
- tentative steps
Semantics of Body Parts
Lots of reference to metal
- implies coldness and the lack of emotion the man possesses

The search for the man not physically but spiritually and emotionally

Question 4

Mood

Answer 4

Depressing tone

Understanding what the soldier has been through

Question 5

Soundscape

Answer 5

Rhyme scheme falling apart
- increasingly inaccurate as the connection is lost

Ends with
•closed
•close
- connecting understanding