How would u interpret this poem s moving image?

About His Person



Five pounds fifty in change, exactly,

a library card on its date of expiry.



A postcard stamped,

unwritten, but franked,



a pocket size diary slashed with a pencil

from March twenty-fourth to the first of April.



A brace of keys for a mortise lock,

an analogue watch, self winding, stopped.



A final demand

in his own hand,



a rolled up note of explanation

planted there like a spray carnation



but beheaded, in his fist.

A shopping list.



A givaway photgraph stashed in his wallet,

a kepsake banked in the heart of a locket.



no gold or silver,

but crowning one finger



a ring of white unweathered skin.

That was everything.



Simon Armitage

How would u interpret this poem s moving image?
Acid is bad.
Reply:The image that comes to mind, is a forensics mortician examining a dead body, removing personal possessions, and notable facts to determine the cause of death during an autopsy.



The guy killed himself because his wife left him.
Reply:Like your idea.



Perhaps you could intersperse the images with still frame flashes of the events relating to his personal effects.



Wedding photo.



The moment he entered his house with the shopping his wife wanted and found her dead and a newspaper showing the 24th March.



His wife's funeral.



Putting his child's first hair in the locket.



A stamp collection with him about to peel off the stamp from the card.



And so on.



Good luck!



Saturday Morning Afterthought!



It probably does denote that his wife had left him , but I think implying she died makes for stronger imagery.
Reply:It seems to me that a man just wrote a suicide note and killed himself because he lost his wife.
Reply:Yeah I like your video idea.. but have it as a silent video clip and read the poem over it.. maybe in black and white?!

Moving poem though ;'(

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