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Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard; I am a lover of America."
This is, on one level, a literal reference to the fact that Eddie Beddoes, on whom the poem is based, was shot. This image also demonstrates how the speaker's physical journey is becoming part of a mental voyage for both husband and wife. By feeling her husband's "hurt," the speaker is being allowed inside the emotional source of his pain and, consequently, is able to empathize with him.
Throughout the poem, the speaker is faced with the simultaneous familiarity and distance of her husband—a person so changed by wartime trauma that he is now almost unrecognizable to his wife. The "manhunt" of the poem's title is a reference to the speaker's exploration of her husband's dramatically changed body and self, and the poem demonstrates the difficulty of reconnecting with loved ones after they've returned from traumatic military combat. In doing so, the poem highlights the wider effects of personal trauma on those who are close to it.
The imagery of warfare and mechanics utilized throughout the poem is also often directly associated with brokenness, suggesting that those who come into contact with war are likely to be damaged by it. For instance, the soldier's ribcage is comprised of "struts" in need of binding and of broken "rungs"; the "rudder" of his shoulder blade is "fractured." What's more, the use of inanimate objects to describe parts of the soldier's body make this body both unfamiliar and inanimate.
"I was in four and a half years, never an American; I was immediately a New Yorker. What? My voice is rising? you are right; I tend to become sentimental when I think of that city. It still occupies a place of great fondness in my heart" (p.37)CHAPTER 3
She fixes the metaphorical struts of his broken ribs, and then, again speaking metaphorically, climbs up his ribs as if they were rungs of a ladder.Upon reaching her partner's scratched heart, she feels the pain that he feels.As she continues to move around inside his body she is able to imagine the X-ray image of a small piece of metal which is lodged in his chest.
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