Carol Anne Duffy’s presentation of love and relationships. Love and relationships are themes that are consistently found throughout Carol Anne Duffy’s work. It is something that she seems to present with mixed messages. This can be seen with the contrasts between the poems "Lovesick" and also "correspondents." In the poem correspondents the love theme seems to be forbidden and secretive. This is shown When Duffy writes‚ "When you come on Thursday‚ bring me a letter. " A letter is something
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Analysis of “Prayer” by Carol Ann DuffyLouise Erdrich Yue Jiang 105034154 The Prayer‚ written in 1993 by‚ Carol Ann DuffyLouise Erdrich‚ has a close relationship with Julia Kristeva’s essay “Revolution in Poetic Language”. According to psychoanalysis‚ when people are babies‚ they are irrational and emotional. All their need is to be cared for. Their needs should be demandedmet‚ either for food‚ or caring or other things. A baby considers the person who offers satisfies them this need
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Carol Ann Duffy’s poem ‘War Photographer’ published in 1985‚ explores the two contrasting worlds in which a war photographer lives in: the warzones of Belfast‚ Beirut and Phnom Penh and his calm home town in Rural England. This poem was based on Duffy’s numerous conservations with Don McCullin‚ an internationally known British photojournalist who specialised in war photography and urban poverty also known as the ‘the underside of society’. By sharing his experiences‚ Duffy evokes both
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Carol Ann Duffy’s poem ‘Shooting Stars’ is a poem in which human suffering is effectively portrayed. Duffy uses the situation of Nazi persecution of the Jewish people to underline this. Duffy’s use of an ambiguous title‚ together with her imagery effectively explores this theme of human suffering. The poem’s title ‘Shooting Stars’ creates a sense of ambiguity. The general connotations applied to this phrase are that of a falling star or perhaps the beauty and brightness of fireworks. However
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Both Duffy and Plath portray many similar themes in their poetry; the theme of family relationships is illustrated in the poems ’Brothers’ and ’Before you were mine’ by Duffy and in ’Daddy’ and ’Medusa’ by Plath. All four poems portray a speaker looking back over relationships within their family members‚ however the context varies; in ’Daddy’‚ it is implied that a relationship between a father and a young girl has been cut short by death‚ resulting in a psychological battle between the speaker and
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1. ‘LITTLE RED CAP’ ‘LRC’ is a poem written by Carol Ann Duffy‚ and is the first poem in the anthology ‘The World’s Wife’‚ published in 1999. By interpreting the fairytale of Little Red Riding Hood in her poem‚ Duffy recounts her ten years of marriage to Adrian Henri‚ who was twenty-three years old her senior. She places herself as the character of Little Red Cap and Henri as the wolf. Duffy also alludes to fairytales such as ‘Sleeping Beauty’ in ‘Queen Herod’ or more traditional stories like ‘The
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hijdsfExplore the ways Shakespeare and Carol Ann Duffy present human weaknesses/ flaws in some of the characters they write about In Shakespeare’s play ‘Much Ado about Nothing’‚ Don John is a very important character. He is an illegitimate son‚ which automatically lowers him in the society of the Elizabethan age. He is isolated‚ ignored and rejected by everyone in his life‚ which is one of the reasons which seem to force him to behave as a villain. People expected this of him as they assumed that
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the passenger approached the cab. He was a middle-aged‚ slightly balding‚ white man. He entered the car and told my dad where he attended to go and then sulked back into his seat letting off a sigh. “Long day?” my dad said “You have no idea” the passenger repeated. And before my dad could let off another reply the passenger began to give a preliminary report of his day. My dad smiled and nodded and added commentary when need be‚ and the passenger kept talking and talking and- “Screech” the tires
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Stealing Stealing by Carol Ann Duffy was written in the 1980’s after Duffy had seen her neighbours snowman stolen from their front garden. Getting inspired by this‚ she had written this poem reflecting on the problems that occured in that moment‚ hence it was the time in Britain where unemployment was high due to Margaret Thatcher’s (the Prime Minister during the 1980’s) government policies. The poem starts with a rhetorical question‚ "The most unusual thing I ever stole?" This question seems
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This poem‚ like Before You Were Mine‚ is autobiographical‚ but more obviously so. Mrs. Tilscher is a real person‚ who taught Carol Ann Duffy in her last year at junior school. The poem is about rites of passage‚ the transition (move or change) from childhood to adolescence and the things we learn at school‚ from our teachers and from our peers. Duffy also associates the oppressive feeling we have in humid weather with the physical changes of puberty. Leaving primary school for the last time is like
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