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A Critical Appreciation of 'Cataract Operation', a Poem by Simon Armitage.
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A Critical Appreciation of 'Cataract Operation', a Poem by Simon Armitage In my opinion 'Cataract Operation' is fundamentally about the limitations of our natural sight, and the exploration of how these restrictions can be penetrated and the mundane things all around us transformed into something entirely different. That is the nature of the 'Cataract Operation'; the 'Cataract' is this innate barrier that we all possess that prevents us from looking beyond the physical reality of the world. The 'Operation' is having this obstruction removed and gaining a deeper perception of things. Few people look at a bird flying and see that bird waving at them, or look at a pair of curtains lining a window, and see two interfering old women peering out from their hiding place. Those that do, could be said to have a 'poet's sight'. Poets can write poetry about commonplace objects and events perhaps because they don't...
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