For this piece of coursework, I am going to compare two Poems produced :: English Literature

For this adult male of coursework, I am going to compare two Poems produced by Simon Armitage.For this piece of coursework, I am going to compare two Poems producedby Simon Armitage. His website has quoted that he is whizz of the mostexciting younger poets that combines accessible humor and realiststyle with unfavourable significance and has been short listed for theWhitbread Prize, TS Eliot Prize and Forward Prize. When he jumpedgenres, the critics moan around his first novel Little Green Man (2001)for its lack of poeticism he said he just wanted to tell a invention,but the Guardian saw this tale of adult men detain in childhood gamesas a piece of low-key, frill-free lad-lit.About his soulfulness is a verse form about a dead man who has been discovered.The title of respect of the song gives a sense that someone has written him, suchas a Police officers report. The form of layout is in 10 two-linedstanzas called rhyming couplets. The poem starts off in an ordinaryway. It sa ys Five pounds fifty in change, only. A library card onits date of expiry. He had a postcard stamped but it wasnt sent tothe person he was sending it to. The phrase slashed was used and thisshowed violence. It also showed that he was writing something quicklywhen the poem states A pocket sized diary slashed with a draw FromMarch 24th to 1st of April, something happened during that period oftime and we dont know what it is. This makes us wonder in suspicion,what it was about. In his hand there is a piece of paper with his ownhandwriting on it A final demand, in his own hand and this suggeststhat it could be his bill order which is unpaid. It is not told whatis exactly meant but I presume so.On the 6th stanza it says there was a rolled up note of explanationsprayed like a clove pink. This gives us a hint that he committed tosuicide. The words explanation and carnation both rhyme like asimile. It gives emotion to the poem from skin perceptiveness sad about hisdeath. He also had po ssession of a lose it that was in the shape ofa heart. This has given a hint why he has committed suicide maybebecause he lost a loved one. For example his wife, who would beimportant to him. No gold or silver, but crowning one finger statesthat he had a wedding party ring and this links up to the previous stanzathat he was married.