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    2) What are your feelings about the photographer and his work as you read the poem? Show how the words of the poem have created these feelings in you. After reading Carol Ann Duffy’s poem the “War Photographer”‚ I feel pitiful for the war photographer‚ knowing that he cannot that he would not be able to lead a normal life once the memories from the battlefield haunts him. I also feel that we as society are glad to keep a distance from the harsh realities of war while being just superficially sympathetic

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    Comparison of the ways women are presented in ‘Salome’ and ‘Havisham’ The two poems are written by a twentieth century poet called Carol Ann Duffy. In her poems women are presented in various ways. For example‚ the women in her poems ‘Salome’ and ‘Havisham’ are both quite deranged together with disturbed characteristics as they view love and relationships in two different ways – anger and bitterness. Duffy is known to write about traumatising scenes from childhood‚ adolescence‚ and adult life

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    Bibliography Duffy‚ C. (1999) The World’s Wife‚ London: Picador Word Count Total: 1329 Words Without Quotations‚ Bibliography‚ and Poem Titles: 1193 Words Michael Owens 4175 How typical‚ in terms of language‚ style‚ structure and concerns is ‘Anne Hathaway’ of the collection? Carol Ann Duffy presents Anne Hathaway as a character who is deeply in love with her partner whom she is writing a poem for. This poem shows that the collection is not an act of revenge‚ as it shows

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    chose‚ “Havisham” and "Love After Love"‚ are comparable‚ with their common subject of how a person responds to the end of a relationship‚ but they are very contrasting in the paths they take. The persona in “Love After Love” talks about returning to yourself and loving who you are: without the need for someone else‚ “You will love again the stranger who was yourself” as if you lose yourself in a relationship so much that you need to learn how to look after yourself again. Whereas “Havisham” shows

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    Miss Havisham Influence

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    meeting with Miss Havisham‚ nearly everyone in Pip’s life stand to gain in some way or another from the unused wealth that accompanies‚ so it’s only natural for pip to feel persuaded to become a sycophant. Even members of Pip’s family‚ who do not have much to gain from Miss

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    40 lines of poetry by Carol Ann Duffy and discuss how far these lines reflect her view on love as presented in “The Worlds Wife” “Thetis” by Carol Ann Duffy explores feminist views of the writer which is demonstrated through the pursuit to find love and the power struggle for female independence. Thetis is one of Duffy’s poems in the cluster “The Worlds Wife”‚ which has not been defined by a prefix of “Mrs” unlike the poems “Mrs Lazarus”‚ “Mrs Midas” and “Mrs Aesop”. Duffy empowers women by giving

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    Who Is Miss Havisham

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    unable to move on from the past is how Miss Havisham first appears to us in Great Expectations. Although wealthy‚ immensely so‚ she is deeply unhappy proving that money did not buy her joy. Living in a large house with the ironic name of Satis House‚ barricaded by fences and walls‚ she leads a lonely life‚ one of nearly complete seclusion with her only company being her family whom she doesn’t particularly care for. Despite this loneliness‚ Ms. Havisham prefers to be alone never accepting the company

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    Agony of the Heart In the Great Expectations movie Miss Havisham says‚ “The agony is exquisite‚ is it not? A broken heart. You think you will die. But you just keep living day after day‚ after terrible day.” This woman plays a key role in the theme of suffering. The readers see her in the past‚ being tortured by it. They see her actions causing it for multiple people. But sadly‚ in the all of what she has done‚ comes back to bite her. This causes her to be the one who suffers the most. This is

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    Miss Havisham Essay

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    In Great Expectations by Charles Dickens‚ one of Dickens’ most famous characters is Miss Havisham. She has a few unusual character traits. Miss Havisham is a wealthy woman. Her adopted daughter‚ Estella‚ is love and adored by the narrator of the book‚ Pip‚ along with many other young men. An event that took place in Miss Havisham’s days as a young woman altered her personality completely. Miss Havisham was left at the altar when she was just a young woman. This event changed her for the worse

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    Estella Havisham was raised as a lady‚ but she is still treated as a possession by the men in her life and by her own adopted mother. Though Pip’s intentions are largely innocent‚ he has always seen her as the ideal‚ an unattainable object that is the epitome of

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