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| THE CLOWN PUNK - Context | The poem describes an encounter with the Clown Punk, a tattooed, slightly tragic man who presses his face against the windscreen of the narrator's car when it stops at traffic lights, frightening the children sitting in the back seat. |
| THE CLOWN PUNK - Structure | The poem consists of a single stanza of 24 lines. The lines are pentameters (they have ten syllables each). |
| THE CLOWN PUNK - Language (sound) | Some of the vocabulary is very 'northern'. The rhyme in the phrase "town clown" contributes to the creation of a comic image, before telling us not to laugh. |
| THE CLOWN PUNK - Language (imagery) | This is a strongly visual poem. Vocabulary to do with art or painting. |
| THE CLOWN PUNK - Attitudes, themes and ideas | The Clown Punk is a character who could be either frightening or comic, but the narrator warns, "don't laugh". Instead the poem creates a pathetic figure, who will be "deflated" by the years. There is an almost dismissive tone to the poem, suggested in descriptive phrases like "basket of washing" and "daft mush", perhaps used to make the punk seem less threatening to the children in the car. As he often does, Armitage is introducing us to a character that we might not normally look at so closely. The clown punk is a shambles, someone we would try to avoid or might mock. But Armitage makes us see him in another light and perhaps pity him. |
| THE CLOWN PUNK - Comparison (give) | Each of the main characters in these two poems is someone who is not a part of conventional society: Armitage brings us face to face with them. Both characters make a scene by getting too close to an audience. The character in The Clown Punk doesn't get to speak to us, unlike the main character in Give. |
| THE CLOWN PUNK - Comparison (the horse whisperer) | Both poems bring us face to face with an unusual character and let us learn something about them. There is a focus on physical detail in both poems - although in Horse Whisperer it is about horses, rather than a human character. There is the suggestion of a change over time, in the main characters of both poems. |
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