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The Manhunt
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AS - Level Poetry Mind Map on The Manhunt, created by Alice Love on 02/04/2015.
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The Manhunt
Context
Laura's poem - Laura is the wife of Eddie Beddoes, a soldier who served as peace-keeper in Bosnia before being discharged due to injury + depression
The Manhunt
an intensive search for a person
negative connotation - victim/ criminal
After the first phase, After passionate nights and intimate days,
misleading - seems to be about a health + passionate relationship
life the first stage of a relationship- metaphorically true as the man is so broken + changed + he is not the man she married
contradict rest of poem - like relationship, they don't fit together
only then would he let me trace the frozen river which ran through his face
metaphor of 'frozen river'- something unable to do what it is designed to do. unable to function
frozen - stuck, unable to escape from his position/feelings
river - depth + veracity to his feelings
only then would he let me explore the blown hinge of his lower jaw,
'only then' repetition + short verses - show tiny amounts of progress being made
unable to talk to her
blown hinge - a flexible attachment which allows things to open or shut
mentally unhinged - dangerous, volatile, unpredictable
unable to function - can't be a soldier (been discharged) + can't be a husband (can't love + protect wife)
unable to open up/ communicate
and mind and attend the factor rudder of shoulder-blade,
rudder - device used to steer a ship
unable to function - stuck, static, unable to move forward
Only then could I bind the struts and climb the rungs of his broken ribs
turn in poem - wife trying to mend him, sees it as her role
and feel the hurt of his grazed heart.
soft gentle sounds - softness of intimacy + emotion
emotional pain + damage
feel - starts to feel, understand his pain, empathise with how he is feeling
Skirting along, only then could I picture the scan, the foetus of metal beneath his chest where the bullet had finally come to rest.
the bullet is like a foetus - it is inside of you, it grows + develops
metaphor - that bullet + wound will grow + develop + continue to grow + cause more impact on soldier
Then I widened the search, traced the scarring back to its source
'widened the search' - manhunt, reminds us of importance of title, hostile + negative imagery reflects hostility in man
Then, and only then, did I come close.
AMBIGUITY - after long time of little steps trying to put him back together + work through his pain...
close to each other, bonded + united again
close to understanding him, didn't fully emphasise, understand or find him, but was nearly there
and handle and hold the damaged, porcelain collar-bone
delicate ceramic - soldier is delicate, soft + easy to break
and finger and thumb the parachute silk of his punctured lung
parachute - military, broken parachute - unable to function
silk - delicate, soft side
to a sweating, unexploded mine buried deep in his mind, around which every nerve in his body had tightened and closed
cause of all his pain, deep emotional root, is unexplored mine
mine - if you get too close it will be dangerous, if you touch it you can't let go because you'll blow up
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