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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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    Two of Simon Armitage’s poems‚ ’Poem’ and ’About His Person’ are written about someone who has‚ for unspecified reasons‚ passed away or gone. One is in the style of a eulogy and looks back on the life of its persona‚ presenting contrasting views of it‚ while the other examines the articles found on a man after his death. Both give the readers some impression of the personas‚ but are somewhat ambiguous‚ inviting us to form our own mental pictures of the people and judge them for ourselves. The man

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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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    unseen poem analysis. In this poem Simon Armitage shows he is not yet ready to leave his mother by saying ’’mother. any distance grater than a single span requires a second pair of hands’’ this second pair of hands he requires are his mothers therefore telling us he still needs his mother. shows his anxieties about leaving home by the way he talks about the way he talks about the tape measure‚ ’’You at the zero-end‚ me with the spool’’ he talks about the tape measure as if it were the umbilical

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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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    The poem itself it a lot alike to a detective story as Armitage forces the reader to try and figure out what is going on. Armitage also forces the readers to make their own judgements on the man described and what has happened to him‚ to a certain extent. ‘About his person’ is the phrase police use when they go through the items found on a dead body. Armitage uses puns which can also be used as metaphors for the man’s life. IMPORTANT LINES AND SUGGESTED EXPLANTIONS: About his person What

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    Season by Simon Armitage This essay is about the poem which is called “Gooseberry Season” and it’s by Simon Armitage. I will be looking at the character of father in the poem and look at the different techniques that are used to describe the behaviour of the father. At the start of the poem the character of the father seems to be kind‚ generous and caring as he lets a stranger stays in the house when the stranger comes and asks for water. This shows his generosity and niceness. Later in the poem he becomes

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    times with the krooklok’‚ directly in the face. This ruthless and somewhat emotionless attack is shown by the narrator’s statement that he‚ ’didn’t even swerve’ during the attack; which could show the narrator’s sense of proudness in his actions. Armitage uses enjambment to link the third stanza to the fourth‚ as the narrator describes how he pushed the hitcher out of the car whilst in third gear and watched him ’bouncing off the kerb’. The statement ’We were the same age‚ give or take a week’ tells

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    be discussed. Some art can astonish people in many ways and make them think about society‚ war the world and their lives‚ and some sorts of art will bring the question ‘what is art?’ like the work on the unknown artist from the short story by Simon Armitage‚ Flypaper‚ from New Writing 9‚ Vintage 2000. Though the story is mainly focusing on the actions of the unknown artist and what the result in‚ I would say that the main character is council Perry. Perry sets out the catch this vandal‚ who

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    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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