Point, Evidence, Explain
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Point, Evidence, Explain Look at how Armitage uses language in the poem. Make three good points about the poem, select three quotations to back up your points then explain the quotations in detail. Point Evidence Explain In ‘The Manhunt’ the poet makes us realise how war can cause great physical and emotional hurt to soldiers and their families. ‘only then would he let me trace / the frozen river which ran through his face’. Armitage uses language which shows that the soldier is cold and unemotional at first. The metaphor ‘the frozen river’ conveys the state of the relationship between husband and wife when he first arrives home injured.
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Point, Evidence, Explain. Look at how Armitage uses language in the poem. Make three good points about the poem, select three quotations to back up your points then explain the quotations in detail. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Point, Evidence, Explain Look at how Armitage uses language in the poem. Make three good points about the poem, select three quotations to back up your points then explain
the quotations in detail.
Point Evidence Explain
In ‘The Manhunt’ the poet makes us realise how war can cause great physical and emotional hurt to soldiers and their families.
‘only then would he let me trace / the frozen river which ran through his face’.
Armitage uses language which shows that the soldier is cold and unemotional at first. The metaphor ‘the frozen river’ conveys the state of the relationship between husband and wife when he first arrives home injured.
