The Manhunt revision

The Manhunt revision

1. Dramatic monologue

   • This allows them to speak the truth and it becomes personal

2. 3d's: Depressed, disfigured and disabled

3. PTSD

4. 'A frozen river which ran through his face'

   • A scar
   • To a sweating, unexploded mine buried deep in his mind'
     • Mental side of things - memories of war

5. Context

   • Simon Armitage was born in 1963 in West Yorkshire. He studied Geography at Portsmouth University. Afterwards, he worked as a probation officer, a job which influenced many of his first poems.

6. Written from the perspective of the wife of a soldier who has sustained serious injuries at war and returned home. The poem explores the physical and mental effects of living with injuries sustained from the armed forces.