Analysis of the poem Simon Armitage’s poem ’Out of the Blue’ is taken his from 2008 anthology of the same name. According to the book’s publishers‚ the poems in the anthology are presented in the form of a respone to three separate conflicts‚ all of which have changed the world we live in. Told from the point of view of an English trader working in the North Tower of the World Trade Centre‚ the poem forms part of the film ’Out Of The Blue’ commissioned by Channel 5 and broadcast five years after
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’Out of the Blue’ is a dramatic monologue spoken by one of the people inside the twin towers on 9/11‚ from inside the burning building. The effect is of extreme close up on a tiny point in space in time‚ almost in a 1to1 narrative time. The event is narrated as it happens an appeal to a second person who could not be listening. This creates an weird effect‚ of an event we cannot touch‚ of lost people who could not speak to us‚ even though we watched at the time or later: the flames‚ the people who
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The Armitages consider the black people as similar use as props. The black people’s identity is being stolen and used as props without having the understanding and struggle they have endured. This is portrayed through Georgina and Walter as well as Andrew at the cocktail party. Missy‚ Rose’s mother‚ uses the spoon as a hypnotizing and controlling implement that knocks a person down with three clicks of her spoon. The silver spoon is a significant object as it demonstrates the control she has over
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Comparative Essay – “How does the writer present fear in Out of the Blue and Belfast Confetti”? In both Out of the Blue by Simon Armitage and Belfast Confetti by Ciaran Carson‚ the poets both present fear through a number of techniques. Both describe a city and its civilians under attack‚ exposing the impacts of terrorism on its victims. They are similarly written in a free-verse structure‚ which clearly illustrates the exposed and fearful state in which the ‘narrators’ are left in. In Belfast
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CV – Simon Armitage Simon Armitage was a prohibition officer for 6 years. In the poem CV he describes a life of a man who struggles throughout his life. This poem could be reflecting on people or incidents Armitage faced white he was prohibition officer as it is common to work with lower class‚ struggling people with limited opportunity ‚ drug dealers and etc. Armitage uses his working life as an influence in his work. CV portrays a skeleton of a person. CV is not sufficient by itself as it doesn’t
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Simon Armitage writes many poems about the topic of violence. Two of such poems dealing with the issue of violence are ‘hitcher’ and ‘gooseberry season.’ The poem ‘hitcher’ gives us a hint that the poem may be about a hitch-hiker. The title is suitable for the poem because its called ‘hitcher’ who is short for a hitcher-hiker‚ which is presented in the poem‚ also in the poem another male is also in the poem. The speaker of the poem is the male inside of the car‚ this is obvious because throughout
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Creation of Adam and Eve is one which shames women‚ labeling them as the reason for mankind’s “fall” from God’s graces and marking childbirth as God’s punishment for women’s folly. Contradictory to this tale‚ Paula Gunn Allen’s creation story “Out of the Blue” marks “the fall” of women as an event to be celebrated‚ as it is the catalyst which created the world
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where Armitage uses the verb “reach” to amplify that it still has to take effort for the persona to be able to retrieve what he wants. By reaching towards the hatch‚ he is moving away from something‚ linking to the context‚ it could be suggested that he is moving away from his mother which can prove the loss in his relationship with his mother as he grows up. Enjambment in stanza two allows the readers to foresee an image in their head in relation to the poem. The lines are stretched out within
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Introduction: In the poem ‘manhunt’ written by Simon Armitage‚ the poet uses form‚ structure and linguistic devices to convey the meaning of the poem. As the title of the poem suggests‚ the poem is written from the perspective a woman trying to find the person her husband was once‚ before he got injured. This poem explaines how War can cause Physical‚ emotional and psychological pain and how that can affect an intimate relationship. Structure: 13 stanzas of couplets each with irregular rhyme and
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Comparing the attitudes towards terrorism in ‘Out of the Blue’ (Simon Armitage) and ‘The Right Word’ (Imtiaz Dharker) The use of dramatic monologue allows Armitage to explore the thoughts and feelings of a victim of conflict. This extract comes from a much longer poem called ‘Out of the Blue’‚ commissioned by Channel 5 for the fifth anniversary of the bombing of the Twin Towers in 2001. The powerful TV images of the planes flying into the buildings‚ the subsequent fires and the collapse of the
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