the manhunt

Question 1

who wrote the manhunt

Answer 1

Simon armitage

Question 2

when was the manhunt written

Answer 2

2007

Question 3

what is the poem about

Answer 3

a wife trying to find the source of her husband’s pain/trauma by moving from his external to internal injuries, until she

Question 4

what is the poem about

Answer 4

a wife trying to find the source of her husband’s pain/trauma by moving from his external to internal injuries, until she ‘came close’ to finding it

Question 5

who is the speaker

Answer 5

Laura (wife)

Question 6

significance of the title

Answer 6

suggests action packed and exciting, yet juxtaposes the first line

Question 7

punctuation structure

Answer 7

regular and infrequent

Question 8

rhyme scheme

Answer 8

slowly deregulating rhymes

Question 9

what type of poem

Answer 9

dramatic monologue

Question 10

main themes - 5

Answer 10

war
love
pain
suffering
trust

Question 11

semantic fields -2

Answer 11

nursing
exploration

Question 12

what technique is used for smaller imagery throughout the poem

Answer 12

synecdoche

Question 13

what is the purpose of synecdoche

Answer 13

dehumanising and represents wife’s slow discovery

Question 14

‘after the first phase,

Answer 14

after passionate nights and intimate days,’

Question 15

‘only then would he let me trace

Answer 15

the frozen river which ran through his face,’

Question 16

‘the parachute silk

Answer 16

of his punctured lung’

Question 17

‘the foetus of metal beneath his chest

Answer 17

where the bullet had finally come to rest.’

Question 18

‘every nerve in his body

Answer 18

had tightened and closed.’

Question 19

‘then, and

Answer 19

only then, did I come close.’