Mind map
The Manhunt revision
Mind map: The Manhunt revision
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The Manhunt revision
Dramatic monologue
- This allows them to speak the truth and it becomes personal
3d's: Depressed, disfigured and disabled
PTSD
'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
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.
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.