“Poem” and “About this person” by Simon Armitage Essay

Two of Simon Armitages verse influences, Poem and About His Person be compose about someone who has, for unspecified reasons, passed a musical mode or gone. One is in the style of a eulogy and looks bear out on the flavor of its image, presenting distinguish views of it, piece the other examines the articles found on a patch after his death. Both accept the readers some impression of the personas, but be somewhat ambiguous, inviting us to form our let mental scenes of the mass and evaluate them for ourselves.The man in Poem seems to have a split personality. Each of the first ternary stanzas is made up of four tangles the first three dealing with in force(p) things he did and the fourth mentioning a drawback, something bad. For example the trio and fourth lines of the first stanza read,And he always tucked his daughter up at night And slippered her the one age that she lied.Although on that point are more good than bad things mentioned, the bad is cleverly positioned at the end of the line and this seems to make it overtop and regular(a) cancel out each of the positive actions mentioned. In the context of a eulogy the three positive lines could be what is being said with the last line representing the thoughts of those present at the funeral.Simon Armitage does not cogitate on the life history of this man, but finishes the poetry withHeres how they rated him when they lookef back sometimes he did this, sometimes he did that.This wishing of conclusion and the continual juxtaposition of contrasting views of the mans life do not form a perceptiveness of him, but request us, the readers, how it is possible to pronounce someone when he or she is gone. We form an impression of a man who seems dutiful (from his actions such as for his mum he hired a private nurse), barely hot-tempered and domineering (such as And once, for laughing, he punched her his wife in the face), Armitage ends it with such ambiguity that we are forced to reconsider our reckonments andare left with solely a apart(p) impression of him.About His Person presents its persona via his personal possessions only, which also makes it difficult to draw up an impression of him. besides there are hints presumptuousness about his life, such as crowning one find / a ring of white unweathered skin which suggests he may once have been married but died marooned and lonely. It is also suggested by Armitage, however indirectly, that Armitage move suicide, such as from A final demand / in his own hap. The poem contains metaphors for death the library wittiness on its date of expiry and the watch, stop. These suggest the pre planning of his death. Everything has a epitome meaning about the mans life, which is an unusual but effective way of conveying information.From these pointers towards aspects of the personas life it is automatic for the readers to create an image of him. barely so little information is given that the picture I see in my mind of an elderly widower with no next-of-kin deciding that he is tired of life is undoubtedly quite different to the picture drawn up by other reader. This is a difference between this poem and Poem as we have evening less of an idea about the unfounded mans personality and even less basis on which to judge him. Yet the fact that we do is on the nose what Simon Armitage is trying to illustrate that human temper is to draw up impressions of people from nearly no basis.Both of these poems are written from a detached, impersonal view which adds to their effect. This shows that the impressions created are from an uninvolved unbiased individual and that the people described could be anyone even relatives of the reader.In conclusion, neither poem presents a fine impression of the man who has departed this life. However through the ambiguous double-meanings, impersonal forward motion and cleverly thought-out structure they invite the readers to do the impression creation an d so ask how we have done this and how we have managed to judge someone who is known to us only through a few lines of poetry.