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Analyzing Simon Armitage's Poem 'Gooseberry Season'
How does Simon Armitage’s writing make the Violence so disturbing in Gooseberry Season?
“Gooseberry Season” is a poem that can be interpreted as blunt and edgeless. This impression is set by the poem’s lack of imagination and visualization. Gooseberry season entails the victim’s last few weeks as he outstays his “vacation” at the narrator’s house. The victim took the narrator’s good nature as an advantage and this led up to his death as he was drowned to his death.
The narrator opens the poem with, “Which reminds me”. This line tells us that there was an incident or a phrase that triggered his nostalgia as he wants to tell us a story that has gooseberries involved. We are later informed that the victim gives a recipe for a gooseberry sorbet. This makes the narrator look like a vulgar man as his nostalgia got triggered by the memory that he has of the victim and how he wanted to tell us the story of how the victim died, the memory was the gooseberry sorbet.
Simon Armitage’s structure is also well mentioning, I’m saying this because the structure of the poem is set out like a movie as the first two stanzas have portrayed the victim as the superior man in the poem. It gives us a back-story to the victim’s life and it makes the reader feel very sympathetic
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The narrator says, “We ran him a bath and held him under, dried him off and dressed him and loaded him in the back of the pick up.” The blunt and vague language that was used makes this stanza very disturbing as the narrator shows no remorse or compassion towards the victim and makes him look like a barbaric animal. In my personal opinion was the most disturbing part because the narrator didn’t have the will to give the victim the chance to leave or apologise for his actions. The narrator immorally kills the victim and this was the most disturbing part because he killed a man for no good

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