The Manhunt

Question 1

opening is instantly intimate

Answer 1

through passionate nights and intimate days

Question 2

Anaphora of this phrase indicates progression

Answer 2

only then

Question 3

metaphor of bullet trail through face

Answer 3

frozen river

Question 4

intimate/love imagery in first half of the poem in each stanza

Answer 4

handle and hold…finger and thumb

Question 5

these phrases show fragility of collar bone

Answer 5

porcelain collar-bone

Question 6

these phrases show fragility of shoulder blade

Answer 6

fractured rudder of shoulder blade

Question 7

these phrases show fragility of lung

Answer 7

parachute silk of his punctured lung

Question 8

these phrases show fragility of ribs

Answer 8

climb the rungs of his broken ribs

Question 9

juxtaposition of life and death

Answer 9

foetus of metal

Question 10

shows PTSD

Answer 10

unexploded mine buried deep in his mind

Question 11

he has trauma and it can easily be triggered

Answer 11

every nerve…tightened and closed

Question 12

finally she gets close in the end of the poem

Answer 12

then and only then did I come close.

Question 13

what does the rhyme scheme indicate

Answer 13

it gets more fragmented progressively through the poem showing how his body is in pieces

Question 14

what is the poem about

Answer 14

a man who was shot in the face in Bosnia in 1997 when he was 19

Question 15

what does the title suggest

Answer 15

that she is searching for him

Question 16

what does the subject think of what has happened to him

Answer 16

that he is useless, disfigured and is depressed

Question 17

what was the poets previous occupation

Answer 17

he was a probation officer and his parents didnt like it when he switched career