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Simon Armitage likes to look at ordinary things in an extraordinary way. Discuss this view with reference to at least three poems.
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Simon Armitage likes to look at ordinary things in an extraordinary way. Discuss this view with reference to at least three poems. All of Simon Armitage's poems in the Anthology have 'ordinary' subjects but Simon Armitage does not look at them from an ordinary point of view. This is as true of his account of a failed romantic gesture in "I Am Very Bothered" as it is of his view of a simple scene through new eyes in "Cataract Operation". Probably his most explicit expression of the wonder of ordinary things is contained in "It Ain't What You Do It's What It Does To You". In "I Am Very Bothered" Simon Armitage describes a schoolboy's prank in somewhat gruesome detail. The reader's initial impression is that the heating of the scissors is simple cruelty but by the end of the poem a completely different view emerges. that was just my butterfingered way, at...
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