The Manhunt - Simon Armitage Flashcards
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Context - the manhunt - Simon Amritage
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Written in 2007 for a Tv documentary
-poem was written for a documentary called ‘Forgotten Heroes’ about soldiers affected by war and injury
-poem becomes increasingly broken and disorganised as poem progresses
-read by Laura Beddoes, whose husband Eddie Beddoes was one of the peacekeeping task force in Bosnia in 1990s.
-discharged due to injury and suffered from PTSD
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Key quotations
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- ‘sweating, unexploded mine buried deep in his mine’
A metaphor for PTSD, loss of identity. - ‘blown hinge’
dehamanisation as it is usually a robotic term - ‘every nerve in his body had tightened and closed’
he has locked everyone out of his life. - ‘frozen river’ which ran ‘through his face’
a metaphor for showing how the scar has set into his face + permanent impact
