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Evaluating two poems by Simon Armitage, 'I've made out a will' and 'my father thought it bloody queer.'
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Comparison of two poems I will be evaluating two poems by Simon Armitage. The first will be 'I've made out a will' and the second 'my father thought it bloody queer.' I chose these as they have a similar structure. Also I favour these over other Armitage poems. In the first line of this poem the poet states that he has made a will and is going to donate his body to the National Health Service. As the poem has no title, the poet has set his subject of writing, straight from the start. He describes which parts of his body he will leave before clearly announcing that he does not want to donate his heart. The poem is 14 lines long, and has just two sentences; the first is divided into an octet and the second sentence is divided in sestet which has been split into four lines and a...
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