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Hitcher Simon Armitage Analysis
Simon Armitage writes many poems about the topic of violence. Two of such poems dealing with the issue of violence are ‘hitcher’ and ‘gooseberry season.’
The poem ‘hitcher’ gives us a hint that the poem may be about a hitch-hiker. The title is suitable for the poem because its called ‘hitcher’ who is short for a hitcher-hiker, which is presented in the poem, also in the poem another male is also in the poem. The speaker of the poem is the male inside of the car, this is obvious because throughout the poem the speaker refers himself as ‘I.’ A quote to prove this is “I let him have it.” The poem ‘hitcher’ is about a male who is having a bad day because his boss has forced him into going into work because he has had too many days off work and


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