Poetry Anthology

Question 1

4 quotes from Manhunt

Answer 1

“Only then would he let me trace the frozen river which ran through his face
“A sweating unexploded mine buried deep in his mind”
“The foetus of metal beneath his chest where the bullet had finally come to rest”
“Porcelain collar-bone”

Question 2

Manhunt context

Answer 2

Wife’s perspective of a soldier returning from war after discharge due to injury
soldier later diagnosed with PTSD
Armitage’s poetry often focuses on the devastating and life changing effects of war

Question 3

4 sonnet 43 quotes

Answer 3

“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach when feeling put of sight”
“Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight”
“I shall but love thee better after death”
“In my old griefs and with my childhood’s faith”

Question 4

Sonnet 43 context

Answer 4

A list of how she loves her husband and that her strict religious father disapproved of their marriage and she is no longer religious and uses her childhood grief as love for her husband

Question 5

4 she walks in beauty quotes

Answer 5

“She walks in beauty like the night”
“Which waves in every raven’s tress”
“Which heaven to gaudy day denies”
“A heart whose love is innocent”