"Poem" and "About this person" by Simon Armitage.

Two of Simon Armitages poems, Poem and About His Person are written about someone who has, for unspecified reasons, passed forth or gone. One is in the style of a eulogium and looks back on the look of its persona, presenting separate views of it, while the separate examines the articles found on a man after his death. two give the readers some impression of the personas, but are middling ambiguous, inviting us to form our own mental pictures of the people and value them for ourselves.

The man in Poem seems to have a split personality. sever every(prenominal)y of the first of all terzetto stanzas is made up of four positions - the first three dealing with bully things he did and the fourth mentioning a drawback, something bad. For example the third and fourth gentle winds of the first stanza read,

And he eer tucked his daughter up at night And shod her the one time that she lied.

Although there are more good than bad things mentioned, the bad is cleverly positioned at the end of the line and this seems to make it overshadow and even cancel out all of the positive actions mentioned. In the context of a eulogy the three positive lines could be what is being said with the last line representing the thoughts of those present at the funeral.

Simon Armitage does not conclude on the life of this man, but finishes the poem with:

Heres how they rated him when they lookef back; Sometimes he did this, sometimes he did that.

This lack of conclusion and the continual juxtaposition of contrasting views of the mans life do not form a appraisal of him, but ask us, the readers, how it is possible to judge someone when he or she is gone. We form an impression...

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