The Manhunt Flashcards
(7 cards)
Power / love quotes manhunt
“After passionate nights and intimate days” time period
“Only then would he let me explore” “trace” repetition + semantic field
“And feel the hurt of his grazed heart” metaphor/rhyming couplet / alliteration: fricative
“Then, and only then, did i come close” repetition
War quotes manhunt
“The frozen river that ran through his face” metaphor
“The foetus of metal beneath his chest”
“The blown hinge oh his lower jaw” metaphor/alliteration
“The damaged, porcelain collar bone”
“The fractured rudder of shoulder blade”
“Parachute silk of his punctured lung”
“Climb the rungs of his broken rigs” imagery / metaphor
“To a sweating unexploded mine buried deep in his mind” metaphor
“Every nerve in his body tightened and closed”
Time quotes manhunt
“After passionate nights and intimate days”
“Only then” repetition
Then, i widened the search”
“I climbed the rungs of his broken ribs”
Pathway of exploration = “face” “lower jaw” “collar bone” shoulder-blade” “lung” “ribs” “heart”
“Then, only then”
Man quotes manhunt
PHYSICAL
“The frozen river that ran through his face”
“The blown hinge of his lower jaw”
“damaged, porcelain collar-bone”
(Semantic field)
MENTAL / EMOTIONAL
“Feel the hurt of his grazed heart” alliteration / metaphor/ rhyming couplet
“To a sweating unexploded mine buried deep in his mind” metaphor
“Every nerve in his body tightened and closed” imagery
Where is her husband?
“The manhunt”
Death / loss quotes manhunt
“Frozen river”
“Blown hinge”
“Fractured rudder”
“Broken ribs”
“Foetus of metal beneath his chest”
Form and structure of manhunt
Organised on rhyming couplet = reflecting couple harmony
Rhyme scheme falters throughout = disjointed nature of relationship
Poet manhunt
Simon armitage
