by melaniewp | Jun 17, 2013 | GCSE, Mother Any Distance Greater Than A Single Span, OCR, Simon Armitage
Mother, any distance greater than a single spanrequires a second pair of hands.You come to help me measure windows, pelmets, doors,the acres of the walls, the prairies of the floors.You at the zero-end, me with the spool of tape, recordinglength, reporting metres,...
by melaniewp | Jun 14, 2013 | GCSE, Model Essays, Poetry, Simon Armitage
Get analysis of all poems+ Alaska + Give + Gooseberry Season + Kid + My Father Thought it Bloody Queer + Out of the Blue + Poem + To Poverty + The Convergence of the...
by melaniewp | Jun 12, 2013 | AQA Poetry Anthology, GCSE, Give, Model Essays, Poetry, Simon Armitage
Basic AnalysisA man is begging a woman(?) for love, which she will not give to him. Armitage uses the imagery of homelessness to show he’s lost without her. Then he uses theatrical imagery to get across how far she controls him. He will perform any ordeal for...
by melaniewp | Jun 7, 2013 | AQA, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Moon on the Tides, Out of the Blue, Poetry, Simon Armitage
Basic SummaryThis poem is spoken by a trader inside the World Trade Centre (twin towers) on 9/11 moments before the buildings collapse. He seems to be asking us for help, asking whether we can see him. The poem is written as if it’s happening now. The man...
by melaniewp | May 21, 2013 | Convergence of the Twain, English Language Exam, GCSE, OCR, Simon Armitage
‘The Convergence of the Twain’ stops time – immediately after the collapse of the twin towers on 9/11. It begins in strange silence, with airy, elegantly formal language – ‘architecture of air’, the alliteration emphasising the open...
by melaniewp | May 16, 2013 | Kid, Model Essays, Poetry, Simon Armitage, True North, Unseen Poetry
Basic SummaryIn this poem, a character who seems to identify himself with ‘Robin’ from Batman is talking, fast, about his relationship with ‘Batman’. You can read this as a metaphor. So Robin is the son figure, Batman the father or boss figure....
