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The Manhunt
- His poetry demonstrates a strong
concern for social issues
- Subject
- Physical and
mental effects of
living with injuries.
- Perspective: wife of a solider
who has sustained injuries at
war and returned home.
- Physical and
mental effects of
living with injuries.
- Structure
- Made up of a
series of couplets,
mostly un-rhymed.
- Sense of fragmentation
( broken into pieces)
- Matches feelings of
the wife - her husband has changed
- Matches feelings of
the wife - her husband has changed
- Phases of wife
searching for
answers from her
husband
- Made up of a
series of couplets,
mostly un-rhymed.
- Language
- Title - pun on manhunt, wife searching for part of
her husband that she lost at war.
- Treating her husband with care: "handle and
hold", "explore", "mind and attend"
- Metaphor: "blown hinge" -
comparing to objects rather
than living things.
- "damaged, porcelain" -
something hard, but easily
broken.
- Reminder: "frozen river that ran
through his face"
- Reminder: "frozen river that ran
through his face"
- "damaged, porcelain" -
something hard, but easily
broken.
- "Climb the rungs of his broken ribs" -
detail of her hands exploring the altered
body of her husband
- Idea of a ladder: gradual search for answers
- Idea of a ladder: gradual search for answers
- Title - pun on manhunt, wife searching for part of
her husband that she lost at war.
- Attitudes, Themes & Ideas
- About the patience and care of love.
- Explores the cost of war on those
serving in the armed forces
- "grazed heart" literally because of "the metal beneath
his chest" but also metaphorically
- Bullet is inside him like a "foetus" this changes their
life, like having a child changes the relationship
forever.
- Lines 23-24 metaphor "a sweating, unexploded mine
buried deep in his mind" the problem is mental not
physical
- Poem is not about judging the rights and wrongs of war. But
the impact on a relationship. "Then, and only then, did I
come close" - husbands problems lie in memories.
- "grazed heart" literally because of "the metal beneath
his chest" but also metaphorically
- About the patience and care of love.
- Comparison
- In Paris with you
- The Farmers
Bride
- To His Coy Mistress
- In Paris with you
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