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How does the poetry by Simon Armitage make the ordinary seem extraordinary?
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How does the poetry by Simon Armitage make the ordinary seem extraordinary? Simon Armitage's poetry is basically all about regular objects and people which have been twisted to make the objects and people seem peculiar and strange. His poetry makes many people think about the poem and why it is like this. I have been studying his poetry in depth to see what is behind the poems, all together I have analysed five poems; the poem without a title which is sometimes called 'I am very bothered'; this is about an incident involving a young boy at school in a science lab, 'Poem' is about the good and the bad events that a man has done to his family, 'It ain't what you do it what it does to you' is about what a person has and has not done, 'Cataract operation' is what a person sees after they have had...
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