The Manhunt

Question 1

What context do you know about The Manhunt?

Answer 1

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Question 2

What is The Manhunt about?

Answer 2

The Manhunt gives voice to the struggles and effects of war

Question 3

List the 10 quotes for The Manhunt…

Answer 3

‘phase’ ‘days’ (rhyme)
‘frozen river which ran through his face’
‘explore’ ‘handle’ ‘attend’
‘punctured lung’
‘broken ribs’
‘grazed heart’
‘source’
‘sweating unexploded mine’
‘every nerve in his body’
‘only then, did i come close’

Question 4

The Manhunt:
What does this quote show….
‘phase’ ‘days’

Answer 4

The rhyming couplets show the days in which the couples relationship was unchanged as he was relieved to see his wife

Question 5

The Manhunt:
What does this quote show….
‘frozen river which ran through his face’

Answer 5

The metaphor emphasises the impact of his injury and the use of ‘frozen’ suggests the permanence of this injury

Question 6

The Manhunt:
What does this quote show….
‘explore’ ‘handle’ ‘attend’

Answer 6

These gentle verbs reflect the help and care the wife has provided to her husband ‘Eddie Bedoes’

Question 7

The Manhunt:
What does this quote show….
‘punctured lung’
‘broken ribs’

Answer 7

The repetition of ‘In every’ portrays the idea that there is no escape or relief from this blackening city of corruption

Question 8

The Manhunt:
What does this quote show….

Answer 8

The use of the noun ‘manacles’ referring to handcuffs, suggests that the individual opinions and thoughts are all trapped and unexpressed

Question 9

The Manhunt:
What does this quote show….

Answer 9

These negative aural images further illustrate the suffering the people in London are going through due to their powerlessness

Question 10

The Manhunt:
What does this quote show….

Answer 10

The juxtaposition of the innocence of youth and the sordidness of prostitution reflects how youth are put in extreme conditions within the industrial revolution which is unacceptable yet the church is allowing it

Question 11

The Manhunt:
What does this quote show….

Answer 11

The use of the noun ‘plagues’ forms an image in the poems reader of the uncontrollable levels of children work in industrial london

Question 12

What inspiration did William Blake have for London?

Answer 12

French Revolution
- it inspired him as it was a model for how ordinary people could cease power so Blake alludes to the revolution in London
- industrial revolution caused many children to work and the church didnt help youth therefore Blake wrote the poem about this powerlessness