Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Manhunt revision
- Dramatic monologue
- 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
- 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.
- 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.