Another poem which conceives the theme of loss is “Mother‚ Any Distance”. The link between them is the grief of when the child has to move on and find their own path moving away from their old home and family. This is conveyed through “ I reached towards the hatch”‚ 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
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How does Armitage create an atmosphere of detachment? Simon Armitage wrote the poem ‘Mother‚ any distance greater than a single span’‚ it suggests a strong theme of detachment throughout. Although a short poem‚ it holds a lot of meaning that can be interpreted in several different ways. Firstly‚ each stanza ends with a position of different height. Beginning ‘floors’ then ‘kite’ and lastly ‘fly’. Each suggest the narrator is moving further away from reality and is distancing themselves from
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Explore the ways in which Armitage vividly portrays a relationship with a parent in Mother‚ any distance greater than a single span. Remember to support your ideas with details from your chosen poem Armitage shows that the speaker and the mother in the poem have a strong relationship. At the start of the poem he shows a strong bond shown between the mother and child‚ even though they aren’t together‚ this is shown in the quotation; “Mother‚ any distance greater than a single span requires a second pair
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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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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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Gooseberry 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
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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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in U.S. history‚ more than half (53%) of the children being born to mothers under the age of 30 are doing so outside of marriage. The analysis in the article is that this is due to two major cultural shifts: 1) women are becoming more and more economically successful and independent compared to men; and 2) there has been a great decline in the stigma attached to single motherhood. The article also describes interesting demographic differences in this trend. Among mothers of all ages‚ 59 percent
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