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Homecoming AQA CourseworkThis poem is a puzzle for the reader - there are some things the poet has not told us
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Rakesh Chambers Homecoming AQA Coursework This poem is a puzzle for the reader - there are some things the poet has not told us, and without them, our reading of the poem relies on guesswork. This seems deliberate, as the first thing the poem invites us to do is to look at two things separately, then put them together. The poem is written mostly in the second person, addressed to "you". This may at first seem to be the general reader, but later in the poem, Armitage writes "I" and "we" - and it seems that here he speaks to a particular individual. The context and other clues suggest this is a lover or friend (someone he meets "sixteen years" after the incident he describes in the second section of the poem). Perhaps he wants the reader not so see this as something that happened once to another person, but as...
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