1. What is significant about the narrator waving a white shirt?
2. What does the narrator describe he can see and how does he react?
3. What effect is created by the poet addressing you as a reader directly?
4. The narrator feels insignificant. Why?
5. There are two meanings of 'flagging'. Why does Simon Armitage use this as the last word of the poem?
6. Why do you think the narrator uses questions throughout?
7. The verbs are in present tense. Why do you think this is?
8. Look at line 2. What does this imply about where the reader is?
9. What do the adjectives 'wind-milling, wheeling, spiralling, falling' suggest?
10. What does 'my love' in the last line remind us about this person?
11. Do you think Armitage has written an effective poem? Justify your response in about 50 words, using at least two quotations from the text.
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