Shooting Stars By Carol Ann Duffy‚ a critical response. This shows an example of Analysis‚ Evaluation‚ Structure and Expression Date: 29/06/2012 Author Information Uploaded by: Karen Uploaded on: 29/06/2012 Subject: English "Shooting stars" by Carol Anne Duffy is a disturbing and tragically intriguing poem. In the poem‚ Duffy creates a picture of a heroic figure enduring life within a concentration camp‚ in the form of the narrator. This admirable figure tugs at the heart strings of the
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The name of Aesop is as widely known as any that has come down from Graeco-Roman antiquity [yet] it is far from certain whether a historical Aesop ever existed ... in the latter part of the fifth century [BC] something like a coherent Aesop legend appears‚ and Samos seems to be its home. —Martin Litchfield West[2] A woodcut from La vida del Ysopet con sus fabulas historiadas (Spain‚ 1489) depicting a hunchbacked Aesop surrounded by events from the stories in Planudes’ version of his life The
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Nick Conti Slow and Steady Wins the Race There are many ways people can make fun of someone just by the way they look or how they do things. Most people who make fun of others may not know what can be expected of that person and can change that perspective about they view them. They can also be ridiculed because they are inexperienced. The fable in the book Aesop’s Fables that follows this example and relates to a real life experience of mine is The Hare and the Tortoise (65). It was a skiing
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Essay The Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy The poem is written in the first person. Duffy gives her lover an onion in which represents St Valentines Day. The onion is a gift rather than a card or a rose‚ Duffy uses this unusual gift but in fact it’s a statement of love. The onion a (metaphor) is a strong ugly vegetable‚ not only does it show love but can show the inner beauty with in the onion itself. There are good points and bad points in love however there are consequences of what love can
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What techniques has Carol Ann Duffy used in her poetry to make old stories and fables relevant to modern audiences? Comment on upon the use of language‚ imagery and structure. ’Mrs. Faust’ is written in the casual‚ contemporary style which suits its setting and adds fittingly to the collection of ’The Worlds Wife’. In this collection most poems explore the feminist principles or the modern state of them. This poem however‚ introduces a new issue to the collection; the materialistic nature of
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treatment of love in Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Valentine’. Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Valentine’ ultimately depicts a highly cynical attitude towards love and conventional gestures of affection. The poem uses traditional images of valentine as a starting point‚ before showing how an onion is much more true to the nature of love. An extended metaphor of the onion is then used to depict Duffy’s underlying implication that love can be destructive on many different levels. One of the main ways in which Duffy conveys this
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Aesop’s Fables The Hart in the Ox-Stall A Hart hotly pursued by the hounds fled for refuge into an Ox-stall‚ and buried itself in a truss of hay‚ leaving nothing to Be seen but the tips of his horns. Soon after the Hunters came up and asked if anyone had seen the Hart. The stable boys‚ who had been resting after their dinner‚ looked round‚ but could see nothing‚ and the Hunters went away. Shortly afterwards the master came in‚ and looking round‚ saw that something unusual had taken
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their own problems Carol Ann Duffy seems to ask political/feminist questions in the following poems and believes women to be partly responsible for mass production‚ industrialisation and technology. The women in Duffy’s poems are seen as obsessive (The Diet‚ Work) and not in control (the woman who shopped). All three poems seem to combine aspects of femininity into one character such as gluttony‚ self-harm/losing oneself and seek to change themselves in some way. It seems Duffy has a major conflict
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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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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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