Comparison Of The Manhunt And Quickdraw 
Comparison of “The Manhunt” and “Quickdraw"
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I personally feel that the structure of the two poems "The Manhunt" and "Quickdraw" vary a lot with each other in many different ways. Firstly, "The Manhunt" has been arranged in very short, precise, two- lined, separate stanzas. I think Simon Armitage did this to emphasize the SMALL steps in this painstaking process of returning a man to the real world after all the suffering and traumatizing scenes he has witnessed in war. There is also some repetition of the structure of the stanzas which all contain two verbs each, an example of this is in the fourth stanza, where it states, “And handle and hold his damaged porcelain collar bone.” Armitage might have done this to symbolise and bring forward the point that this is an active process and the wife is doing a lot to help her husband. However, on the other hand, Carol Ann Duffy structures her poem "Quickdraw" in contrast to Armitage by using only four, four- lined stanzas. I believe that Duffy uses this technique to write out her poem because she wants to represent the different stages of her semantic field, a western shoot- out. This is obvious in the first stanza, where it is suggesting the preparation of the shoot- out by saying, “I wear the two, the mobile and landline phones.” Duffy successfully uses the second stanza to signify the second stage of the western shoot-out, the shooting. She does this by quoting, “You choose your spot, then blast me.” However, Duffy cleverly structures two specific lines of her poem interestingly. These lines are part of the second and third stanzas where is says, “You’ve wounded me” and “Through the heart.” In my opinion, Duffy does these enforced breaks and enjambment to give the poem an erratic pace, like a gun- fight or a heated argument. Duffy also highlights these two lines to emphasize the true feelings of the woman, in whose point of view this poem is being written. She does this by making these two individual
Structure: -
I personally feel that the structure of the two poems "The Manhunt" and "Quickdraw" vary a lot with each other in many different ways. Firstly, "The Manhunt" has been arranged in very short, precise, two- lined, separate stanzas. I think Simon Armitage did this to emphasize the SMALL steps in this painstaking process of returning a man to the real world after all the suffering and traumatizing scenes he has witnessed in war. There is also some repetition of the structure of the stanzas which all contain two verbs each, an example of this is in the fourth stanza, where it states, “And handle and hold his damaged porcelain collar bone.” Armitage might have done this to symbolise and bring forward the point that this is an active process and the wife is doing a lot to help her husband. However, on the other hand, Carol Ann Duffy structures her poem "Quickdraw" in contrast to Armitage by using only four, four- lined stanzas. I believe that Duffy uses this technique to write out her poem because she wants to represent the different stages of her semantic field, a western shoot- out. This is obvious in the first stanza, where it is suggesting the preparation of the shoot- out by saying, “I wear the two, the mobile and landline phones.” Duffy successfully uses the second stanza to signify the second stage of the western shoot-out, the shooting. She does this by quoting, “You choose your spot, then blast me.” However, Duffy cleverly structures two specific lines of her poem interestingly. These lines are part of the second and third stanzas where is says, “You’ve wounded me” and “Through the heart.” In my opinion, Duffy does these enforced breaks and enjambment to give the poem an erratic pace, like a gun- fight or a heated argument. Duffy also highlights these two lines to emphasize the true feelings of the woman, in whose point of view this poem is being written. She does this by making these two individual