Simon Armitage: Poems Simon Armitage

In Section 7 of Out of the Blue, Armitage builds the tragic tension, this section describes the panic experienced by the workers in the Tower after the plane struck and commemorates the experience of those in the Towers, making the reader...

Within Remains, Simon Armitage, who is widely known for focusing on physiological health and for creating a documentary of young soldier in the height of the conflict occurring in Afghanistan, presents the theme of suffering through the personal...

In 'The Manhunt' and in 'A Praise Song for My Mother,' two contrasting images of love are portrayed. The Manhunt tells a story of the lover of a former-soldier and her attempt to uncover his physical and mental injuries he holds so readily, and...

On the surface Simon Armitage’s “Poem” has the structure of an English sonnet in that it consists of fourteen lines, each with ten syllables, divided into three quatrains, a couplet, and is written in iambic pentameter. Through its use of...