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Description
Mind Map by John Ledger, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by John Ledger
about 6 years ago
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The Manhunt revision
- Dramatic monologue
- This allows them to speak the truth and
it becomes personal
- 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
- Mental side of things - memories of
war
- A scar
- 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.
- 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.
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