The Manhunt - Armitage

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Mind Map on The Manhunt - Armitage, created by yusuf2106 on 04/22/2014.
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The Manhunt - Armitage
  1. About
    1. The poem is one that focuses on the injuries inflicted upon a soldier from working in the Armed Forces, who has safely returned home. This is from the wife's viewpoint, and outlines the mental and physical difficulties faced due to the husband's past experiences/injuries.
    2. Context
      1. Simon Armitage was born in 1963 in West Yorkshire, and his poetry concentrates on social issues, as well as linking to his Yorkshire roots. He has successfully published 15 collections of poetry, and uses casual, everyday language (colloquial language) in his poems, appealing to today's society.
      2. Techniques
        1. 1) The structure used is the way the wife must be feeling, as the poem does not have a any rhyming in it, and is in a series of couplets. Therefore, the fact that the poem doesn't rhyme a lot suggests the wife is feeling unstructured, lost, at the man her husband has become from fighting out at war.
          1. 2) The title of 'Manhunt' links to how the wife must be feeling after losing the man she thought she knew, after he had gone to war, as a manhunt is literally hunting for someone, often a criminal. This title is deliberately used in order to create an effect that shows the reader how the wife must be feeling, in the change in her husband.
            1. 3) Parts of the husbands body are referred to as inanimate objects, metaphorically. For example, his jaw is a 'blown hinge', which could possibly be a way to describe him not being open to her anymore, not able to express any feelings he holds, because of his past experiences.
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