- Year 9
How Simon Armitage writes about human connection in 'All Right?' and 'Give'
I can respond to how Armitage writes about human connection in ‘Give’ and ‘All Right?’.
- Year 9
How Simon Armitage writes about human connection in 'All Right?' and 'Give'
I can respond to how Armitage writes about human connection in ‘Give’ and ‘All Right?’.
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Key learning points
- Armitage was commissioned to write ‘All Right?’ for a campaign that aimed to encourage people to watch out for others.
- Armitage suggests that having an accompanying film meant that he didn’t have to create a whole backdrop for the poem.
- Armitage says that ‘Give’ is a poem about not being loved.
- One idea for how to create a poem is to take a narrative and manipulate it into a poem.
Keywords
Commission - a formal request to do a special piece of work
Campaign - an organised course of action to achieve a goal
Narrative - a story or a description of a series of events
Manipulate - to handle something skilfully, like the way a sculptor manipulates clay
Common misconception
A poem is completely separate from a narrative story.
Fundamentally, a poem is about the manipulation of language - so you can manipulate a narrative story into a poem.
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There are copies of Armitage's 'All Right?' and 'Give' in the additional materials.
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