The man hunt

Cards (18)

  • after passionate nights and intimate days
  • the frozen river which ran through his face
  • damaged porcelain collar bone ..... fractured rudder
  • i bind the struts and climb the rungs
  • feel the hurt of his grazed heart
  • sweating unexploded mine buried deep in his mind
  • and every nerve in his body had tightened and closed
  • who wrote the manhunt?
    Simon Armitage
  • did Simon ever fight in war?
    no
  • who is the persona/speaker ?
    laura
  • what did eddie work as?
    peace keeper
  • what war did eddie fight in?
    bosnian war 1992 - 1995
  • what was eddie discharged with?
    PTSD and depression
  • what was the purpose of the poem?
    written for a documentary in 2007 for the forgotten heros and the mental health of soldiers
  • what is the structure of the poem?
    rhyming for the first 6 lines then unrhymed and then ends with half rhyme
  • what is the speaker tracking?
    a bullet through her husbands body
  • what poems can you compare love and relationships?
    A Wife in london
    Cozy Apologia
    Sonnet 43
    Valentine
  • what poems can you compare war?
    A wife in London
    The soldier