manhunt

• context : told from wife's perspective - deals with PTSD and its impact on the soldier and his wife
• structure: organised in couplets, reflects the couple's harmony when they were first united. as the poem progresses, the rhyme scheme falters, reflecting the increasingly disjointed nature of their relationship
• "blown hinge of his lower jaw" - metaphor suggests his jaw is physically and metaphorically broken - he's no longer open with her, perhaps unable to share his feelings and experiences
• "fractured rubber of shoulder blade" - he can't "steer" himself, she has to guide him