Compare and Contrast: Cataract Operation, About his person, & Poem

Simon Armitage was born in 1963 and lives in West Yorkshire. Simon Armitage has taught at the University of Leeds and the University of Iowas Writers Workshop, and currently teaches at Manchester Metropolitan University. He writes biographical rimes, which are establish on things, which he has experienced in his life. In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting three of Simon Armitages poesys, Cataract Operation, Ab proscribed His person and Poem.The subject matter in Cataract Operation is intimately the poet looking out of his window and eyesight things in a appearance he has neer dupen them before, same(p) pigeons in the railyard, washing on a line, and hens pecking for food. This is because a cataract achievement clears the lens of his eyes, which has become unclear, so the poet is affectionate to his fresh way of seeing things to having had a difficulty in front of his eyes cleared aside by surgery. The subject matter is a happier and more enjoyable compared to close His person. About His someone lists altogether the items that a dead man had upon him when he was discovered.It reads like a police officers report. The following quotations an analogue watch, self-winding, stopped, and beheaded in his fist, and a ring of white unweathered skin all show a sign of a bust up and finished life. Poem could be sympatheticly compared to the two other poesys. The evidence being is as it shows signs of affectionate love and signs of tragedy and deceitfulness. Poem is about a husband and a father who has a serious business with his frame of mind. And if it snowed and snow covered the drive he took a ringtail and tossed it to one side, and always tucked his daughter up at night, and shoed her the one time that she lied. This quote shows us that he had a complex personality and seeks sometimes he did this, and sometimes he did that. The language utilise in Cataract Operation back tooth be really misleading, as the poet creates phrases, wh ich could think up a number of things and is left to the reader to decide. A pigeon in the yard turns tail is an compositors case of the misleading language used because we imagine the shucks turning around so that its tail faces the poet in the window, while at the same time we can read turns tail as runs away(p) from or turns its back on, as if it is snubbing the poet.Simon Armitage also uses a mixture of metaphors and personifications so that every item of drying laundry takes on a characteristic ordure of the country or place that we might associate that item with. For example, the fit out is doing monkey business, as if the shirtsleeves were the monkeys arms and the handkerchief waves cheerio as the original type of British man who wears a handkerchief in his chest pocket might do. The poem is laid out in ten bridges, merely they are not rhyming couplets as we name in About His psyche. There is no steadiness in the space of the lines, to highlight that everything the poet sees is new and irregular.The language used in About His Person is very similar to the language used in cataract operation. Again the poet uses a number of misleading expressions, like the title itself. It could be a buckram way of saying, he had on him, but if you look at it in a different manner then it could also suggest that the poem is about the dead person whom is the subject of the poem. About His Person indite in ten two-line stanzas called rhyming couplets. They are short and accurate, just like the notes that a detective might contribute if he or she was investigation a dead body.The language used in Poem is different compared to the other two poems, as the words are simple. There is no misleading phrases used and the language could be considered as straight beforehand and formal. And every week he tipped up half his wage. And what he didnt spend each week he saved. And praised his wife for every repast she made. And once, for laughing, punched her in the face. This language is easy to understand and is uncomplicated compared to About His Person and Cataract Operation. Poem is a sonnet, which is often the figure used for love poetry.Maybe, this highlights the inadequacy of love in the mans life. It is divided into three regular stanzas with a couplet to finish. This might help to underline the steadiness and ordinariness of the mans life. The Ideas and attitudes of cataract could be very difficult to understand. We do not know what it was that made the Simon Armitage suddenly see all the objects he talks about in a new manner. Perhaps he did have a cataract operation or maybe he was imagining what it must be like to have one or he could even use the idea of a cataract operation as an image of what it is like to open your eyes.One thing is for trustworthy, that he is try to explain that we should appreciate our world and see the inner beauty that it possesses. The poet for example saw the images according to his situation and saw the m agic in the simplest way and opened his eyes towards it. This cannot be compared to About His person as in this poem a man is being revived within the poem and the poem could be called as a memorial to him. In this poem Simon Armitage creates a misleading story and we are not totally sure of what happened.The police do not get emotionally involved in cases like these, as they gather the bare facts and leave the feeling out, but we sympathise for the man as we believe he was forced to obliterate himself and we see him as a victim of love and deceit. Poem can in a way be similarly compared to Cataract Operation because it tries to prove a point and produce a moral. The way Simon Armitage tried to make people aware of the beauty of our world in Cataract Operation is similar to the way he tries to make the man in Poem even out the ordinary gentlemen and set a message that sometimes you might do this, and sometimes you might do that.In this poem Simon Armitage does not really condemn the man for all the things he did wrong he alone lists the mistakes and leaves us to represent them. Overall I think that About His Person and Poem are similar because they both include the story of a man, whom is involved in marriage and both men have suffered from a problem and in this essay I have fully compared and contrasted all three of Simon Armitages poems.