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
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quickly gained great admiration. However his little helper Robin the Boy Wonder is an equally important character. Robin’s assistance is rarely highlighted and he does not feel he received the credit he deserves. This is where the poem ‘Kid’ by Simon Armitage begins. Robin is fed up. The poem is a first-person narration from Robin’s point of view. The 25 lines are humorously constructed with Robin fiercely insulting Batman initially claiming him nothing but a “big shot”. The Batman story is by a stroke
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the poets demonstrate the effects of conflict on people in ’out of the blue’ and one other poem in conflict: Out of the Blue and Poppies‚both demonstrate the catastrophic effects which conflict can have upon ordinary people. Within Out of Blue‚ Simon Armitage portrays the feelings of utter helplessness of the public when viewing the twin towers by ’you have picked me out’ the use of personal pronouns is very direct‚ provoking a strong emotional response from the readerWhat about the effect of conflict
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Comparison of “Hitcher” and “The Laboratory” Despite being written almost two centuries apart both ‘The laboratory’ and but Robert Browning and ‘Hitcher’ but Simon Armitage deal with themes of jealousy‚ resentment and violence as well as many other similarities and differences. ‘Hitcher’ is about a depressed man who is deeply angered and takes his frustration out on an innocent hitch hiker spontaneously. ‘The Laboratory’ is about a woman who‚ driven by jealousy‚ wants to poison her husband’s
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Compare how poets use language to present feelings in “The Manhunt” and one other poem (Nettles) In ‘Manhunt’‚ Simon Armitage uses rhyme to reflect the togetherness of a relationship. He says “After the first phase‚ after passionate nights and intimate days.” As the poem goes on‚ the reader can start to recognise that the un-rhymed cuplets show how fragmented their relationship has become. In ‘Nettles’ Vernon Scannell uses elements of nature‚ the nettles‚ to portray his keen anger towards the
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"Hitcher" By Simon Armitage‚ "Education For Leisure" By Carol Anne Duffy‚ "My Last Duchess" and "The Lab" by Robert Browning are all poems that deal with violence or the prospect of violence. ‘The Laboratory’ is a dramatic monologue about a woman who has discovered her husband is having an affair with two other women. She is plotting to poison both of the mistresses. My Last Duchess’ is also a dramatic monologue in which the Duke is telling his new bride father’s representative about a portrait of
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’November’ By Simon armitage and ’Mid - Term Break’ by Seamus Heaney Mid-Term Break”‚ by Seamus Heaney‚ is a free-verse poem that portrays the event in which the speaker‚ who came back from boarding school‚ deals with the loss of a younger brother.In this poem there are several important themes such as time‚ age‚ family‚ pain‚ love and most of all death. This poem takes the audience along on the speaker’s journey to accepting his little brother’s death. The author used a number of imagery
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At Sea - Simon Armitage The Title to this poem ’At Sea ’ is a neutral title and doesn ’t give away a lot of the meaning to the poem. It doesn ’t necessarily commit to anything specific; it ’s just a statement. This is just like the poem. Armitage hasn ’t completely stated what the poem is about‚ there is nothing to say that it is definitely describing someone/something ’At Sea ’. However‚ there are small links that suggest the ’Sea ’ is being used metaphorically. I think that the summary of
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to that prince I intend now to say‚ though it will stall our story.” (Armitage 623-4) This passage alerts the reader to pay attention; the symbolic meaning of the pentangle is important to a proper understanding of the narrator ’s message. The poet illustrates the pentangle as a symbol of faithfulness and an “endless knot” saying‚ “It suits this soldier in his spotless armor/fully faithful in five ways five times over.” (Armitage 631) The five points of the pentangle represent five virtues attributed
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Comparing the attitudes towards terrorism in ‘Out of the Blue’ (Simon Armitage) and ‘The Right Word’ (Imtiaz Dharker) The use of dramatic monologue allows Armitage to explore the thoughts and feelings of a victim of conflict. This extract comes from a much longer poem called ‘Out of the Blue’‚ commissioned by Channel 5 for the fifth anniversary of the bombing of the Twin Towers in 2001. The powerful TV images of the planes flying into the buildings‚ the subsequent fires and the collapse of the
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