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Duffy Havisham Anne Hathaway Before You Were Mine Education for Leisure Armitage Mother, any distance Homecoming Kid Hitcher Pre-1914 poems On My First Sonne Sonnet 130 My Last Duchess The Laboratory
Themes  in Armitage’s Poems
Hitcher
I’d been tired, under the weather, but the ansaphone kept screaming: One more sick-note, mister, and you’re finished, Fired. I thumbed a lift to where the car was parked. A Vauxhall Astra. It was hired. I picked him up in Leeds. He was following the sun from west to east with just a toothbrush and the good earth for a bed. The truth, he said was blowing in the wind, or round the next bend.
I let him have it on the top road out of Harrogate – once with the head, then six times with the krooklock in the face – and didn’t even swerve. I dropped into third and leant across to let him out, and saw him in the mirror bouncing off the kerb, the disappearing down the verge. We were the same age, give or take a week. He’d said he liked the breeze to run its fingers through his hair. It was twelve noon. The outlook for the day was moderate to fair. Stitch that, I remember thinking, you can walk from there.
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Mother, any distance…
Mother, any distance greater than a single span requires 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, recording length, reporting metres, centimetres back to base, then leaving up the stairs, the line still feeding out, unreeling years between us. Anchor. Kite. I space-walk through the empty bedrooms, climb the ladder to the loft, to breaking point, where something has to give; two floors below your fingertips still pinch the last one-hundredth of an inch… I reach towards a hatch that opens on an endless sky to fall or fly.
 
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Poem content theme form & point of view Mother, any distance A mother helps a son to measure up his new home. The son wants and fears freedom. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],My father thought A son faces his father’s scorn when he returns home with a pierced ear. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Homecoming A lover reflects on an argument that his partner had in her childhood. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],November John takes his grandmother to an old people’s home and reflects on mortality. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Kid Robin, Batman’s sidekick, has grown up, while Batman has grown old. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Those Bastards A reflection on social inequality from the point of view of a rebel. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],I’ve made out a will The speaker leaves most of his body to medical science, but not his heart. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Hitcher A tired and frustrated motorist murders a free-spirited hitch-hiker. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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GCSE Revision - Armitage

  • 1.
  • 2. Duffy Havisham Anne Hathaway Before You Were Mine Education for Leisure Armitage Mother, any distance Homecoming Kid Hitcher Pre-1914 poems On My First Sonne Sonnet 130 My Last Duchess The Laboratory
  • 3. Themes in Armitage’s Poems
  • 5. I’d been tired, under the weather, but the ansaphone kept screaming: One more sick-note, mister, and you’re finished, Fired. I thumbed a lift to where the car was parked. A Vauxhall Astra. It was hired. I picked him up in Leeds. He was following the sun from west to east with just a toothbrush and the good earth for a bed. The truth, he said was blowing in the wind, or round the next bend.
  • 6. I let him have it on the top road out of Harrogate – once with the head, then six times with the krooklock in the face – and didn’t even swerve. I dropped into third and leant across to let him out, and saw him in the mirror bouncing off the kerb, the disappearing down the verge. We were the same age, give or take a week. He’d said he liked the breeze to run its fingers through his hair. It was twelve noon. The outlook for the day was moderate to fair. Stitch that, I remember thinking, you can walk from there.
  • 11. Mother, any distance greater than a single span requires 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, recording length, reporting metres, centimetres back to base, then leaving up the stairs, the line still feeding out, unreeling years between us. Anchor. Kite. I space-walk through the empty bedrooms, climb the ladder to the loft, to breaking point, where something has to give; two floors below your fingertips still pinch the last one-hundredth of an inch… I reach towards a hatch that opens on an endless sky to fall or fly.
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