The Manhunt Flashcards
who is the poet and when was he born?
Simon Armitage (1964+)
CONTEXT
About Simon Armitage(4)
- Strong concern for social issues
- Know for his deadpan delivery
- Often darkly poetry
- Influenced by Ted Hughs and Philip Larkin
What did a reviewer from the poetryarchieve.com say about Armitages poem?
“With his acute eye for modern life, Armitage is an updated version of Wordsworth’s ‘man talking to men.’
ANALYSIS
What does the title suggest?
Metaphor, it reveals she’s hunting for a man inside of him
ANALYSIS
Who is the narrator and what is the affect?(3)
- narrator is a wife
- have empathy for the person as its in first person
- also possibly relate
CONTEXT
About the poem?(3)
- written for a channel 4 documentary
- read wife of a soldier
- was discharged due to injury and depression.
STRUCTURE
What does the rhyming couplets some rhymed, half rhymed and some un rhymed suggest?
- The disconnection between the husband and wife
- due to the wives search for answers
- husband comes back from war zone at the end means closure
ANALYSIS
What un organic things is the soldiers body compared to and why?
‘hinge’, ‘porcelain’ ‘rudder’ and ‘rungs’
This makes his body seem unfamiliar and less alive
What is your starter sentence?
The poem Manhunt by Simon Armitage signifies how war affects love between marriage.
ANALYSIS
What does “the foetus of metal beneath his chest” imply?(3)
- Metaphorically growing inside of him
- like having a baby thing are going to change in their lives
- ‘foetus’ suggests it is just the start to his problems- his problems will develop/grow
What does semantic field mean?
a lexical set of semantically related items
ANALYSIS
What does “climb the rungs of his broken rib” imply?
- her hands exploring the altered body of her husband
- ladder is reflective of wife’s gradual search for answers
