Manhunt Flashcards

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Title

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Connotations of crime and death
Literal: chasing down a man
Symbolic: hunting around to find the problem

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Form

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Couplets
First couplet is traditional of a love poem
Full rhymes show progress, half-rhymes show faltering (final half rhyme shows never full recovery, bleak)

Rhyme scheme stops half way through - shows frustration and futility

Use of personal pronouns creates pathos as we see direct involvement
Enjambement reflects speakers desire for progress

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Structure

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First half talks about physical afflictions, goes on to talk about mental afflictions - indicates the importance of mental health

Scale worsens

Repetition of two verbs in each stanza conveys her active role

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Juxtaposition of lexical sets subverting expectations

Corporeal imagery

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Blown, grazed, damaged, broken, unexploded mine
Porcelain, fractured, parachute silk

Skirting along - danger?

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Frozen river

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Cold imagery
Distant?
Water metaphor?

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Handle and hold

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Aspirated

Fragility?

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Climb the rungs

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Symbolic of progress?

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Foetus of metal beneath his chest

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Birth?
Reborn? Changed irrevocably?
Juxtaposition of cold and warm images
Replaced his heart? Distant, callous

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Sweating, unexploded mine buried deep in his mind

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Fear?
PTSD?
Anticipation of danger
Unhelpable

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Context

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No particular setting- the generalisation is indicative of the constant nature of war

Aired as part of a television documentary read by Laura Beddoes (wife of soldier Eddie Boddoes, who suffered with depression and PTSD after being injured in his service.

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My impression of the soldiers life

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Attempting to be patient but frustrated

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