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    Carol Ann Duffy

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    Carol Ann Duffy decided to write poems about two secluded women who are both bizarre and both reclusive‚ but for very different reasons. I would like to show how Carol Ann presented those distinctions and similarities. To begin with‚ the tone of the poem is very different Salome’s tone is somewhat nonchalant and Havisham’s tone is disheartening. In Havisham‚ Carol Ann Duffy uses alliteration to emphasise Ms Havisham’s hatred and frustration‚ by using the repetition of the fierce ‘b’ sound which

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    2011 - Choose a poem in which either nature or time is presented as a destructive force. Discuss how effectively the poet presents nature or time in this way. Carol Ann Duffy’s ’Havisham’ is a monologue spoken by Charles Dickens’s character Miss Havisham from ’Great Expectations’. Jilted by her scheming fiancé‚ Havisham continues to wear her wedding dress and sits amid the remains of her wedding breakfast for the rest of her life‚ whilst she plots revenge on all men. She hates he spinster state‚

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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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    Sport Agents and Amateur Athletes Katie Brown 7/18/2013 Introduction Sport agents typically handle contract negotiations for athletes‚ as well as any public relation issues‚ finance issues‚ and endorsement deals (Evans‚ 2010). Over the years‚ however‚ sport agents have become more to athletes than just a contract negotiator; they have taken upon the additional tasks of marketing their client’s ability‚ persona‚ and brand. With the increasing friction from

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    Miss Havisham

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    Dear Jack‚ My beloved sweetheart bastard. Jilted me‚ destroyed me and crushed me into broken red pieces. I stink and remember the day we were waiting for so long‚ but you then decide to run away. Why? Why did you do this to me? Was it because of me? Or was there something wrong? The wedding gown that I wore is decaying‚ rotting and disintegrating away as days past from that heart breaking day. Don’t think it’s the only the heart that b-b-b-breaks‚ the soul also b-b-b-breaks. I waited and waited

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    Miss Havisham Lighting

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    scene where Miss Havisham walks down the stairs for the first time‚ the filmmakers used a good contrast of light and dark. Miss Havisham has a white cloud surrounding her‚ while everything else around her is dark‚ this technique is called low-key lighting. This scene is shot from a low angle‚ making Miss Havisham look bigger‚ more important‚ and more superior. They emphasise on Miss Havisham‚ because she is the main character in that scene. Seeing a scene like Miss Havisham walking down the

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    set out to rid South Boston of the evil that is: murderers‚ rapists‚ and organized crime. Believed to have the divine right from god to kill the McManus brothers begin to "take out" all that is bad and corrupt. Throughout the movie‚ director Troy Duffy displays many forms of symbolism through visualizations. A majority of these visualizations are ones of religion and moral beliefs. The director opens the movie with both brothers in church listening to their priest talk about a vicious murder in

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    Wedding and Ann Duffy

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    Havisham A poem in which the speaker’s personality is gradually revealed is "Havisham" by Carol Ann Duffy. The poem is delivered in the persona of Miss Havisham‚ a character from Charles Dickens’ novel‚ "Great Expectations". In the poem‚ Miss Havisham was cruelly stood-up on her wedding day by her fraudster fiancé‚ and as a result she stopped all the clocks‚ stayed in her wedding dress and left the wedding banquet out for decades. Miss Havisham’s bitter and violent personality is revealed

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    Duffy Essay

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    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 with

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    duffy and pugh

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    poems look at the themes of suffering and unhappiness when cast out from society.which are two states that are inextricably linkable. Unhappiness can come as a result of suffering‚ or the need to make others suffer can come from pure unhappiness. Duffy and Pugh both make these distinctions in their work‚ and are able to engage the reader by exploring these universal themes. In Duffy’s ‘education for leisure’‚ we find a character who is in the grip of unhappiness and possibly some sort of depression

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