Compare your Responses to ‘Kid’ by Simon Armitage with you Responses to one poem Carol Ann Duffy and tow from the pre-1914 Poetry Bank Poets use features of form‚ structure and language to force the reader to respond in different ways to different poems. Different methods of language are used by poets to produce different feelings about a speaker or generate descriptions of certain people. ‘Kid’ by Simon Armitage is a poem focusing on the partnership of Batman and Robin. It is a monologue from
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Compare how women are presented in 4 of the poems you have studied. To do this compare “Mother...” by Simon Armitage and 3 other poems‚ one by Duffy and two from the pre 1914 bank. All 4 poems ( Mother‚ Anne Hathaway‚ Sonnet 130 and song of the old mother) are all linked to each other all by using different techniques of language to present women and to create some story in there poem. Mother (written by Simon Armitage)‚ the woman (the mother) in the poem is presented in a form of imagery. Armitage
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“Before You Were Mine” by Carol Ann Duffy and “Mother Any Distance” by Simon Armitage focus on the role of being a mother and having to give up something. In “Before You Were Mine” its Carol Ann Duffy’s mother letting go and giving up her carefree lifestyle‚ to take up the important role of a mother. Whereas in “Mother Any Distance” its Simon Armitage’s mother realising she has to let her son grow up and leave her grasps. The poem “Before You Were Mine” by Carol Ann Duffy‚ focuses on the fact that 10
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ENGLISH COURSEWORK - WAR POEMS The first poem is a pre-1900 poem written by Walt Whitman. It is called "Come Up From The Fields Father". This poem tells the story of how a family hear the news that their son has been wounded in battle. Firstly it describes his sister receiving the letter and calling for her father and mother. The poet then goes on to describe the settings of the farm and the background to it. "Where apples ripe in the orchards hang and grapes on the trellis’d vines." "The sky
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‘nothing but feminist propaganda’? Carol Ann Duffy is a Scottish poet and playwright; frequently dealing with issues of gender‚ oppression and violence. In ‘The Worlds Wife’ Carol Ann Duffy explores the portrayal of women in literature‚ and many of the poems seem to smite men; viewing them as being subordinate instead of women. She explores these ideas through monologues of different historical and mythical events from a female perspective‚ by doing this Duffy contrives to give women from the past a voice
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Comparative Commentary on “Salome” and “Medusa” Both “Salome” and “Medusa” are poems written by a poet called Carol Ann Duffy‚ which have similarities and differences based on various aspects of poem analysis. To begin with the poem “Salome” has a slightly different audience than the poem “Medusa”. The audience in “Salome” is unconfident and oppressed women who do not believe in their power and what they can do‚ men who underestimate women and people who discriminate others based on their sex
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isolated. ‘Sick health’ in particular highlights the contrast between Romeo’s physical and emotional wellbeing – although he appears to be physically healthy and normal‚ he is going through emotion turmoil within as his love is unrequited. Similarly‚ Duffy uses language techniques such as oxymorons and broken sentence
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In Salome‚ Oscar Wilde conveys a hazardous connection concerning view and erotic cravings that cause death. The drama portrays an evening in a noble courtyard which Herod‚ the Tetrarch of Judea‚ and his wife‚ Herodias‚ have a banquet gathering for a few Jewish officials. Herodias’s daughter Salome goes to the terrace during the party‚ where she entices the stare of other men in the play‚ while she also develops attraction to the clairvoyant‚ Iokanaan. Her erotic craving for Iokanaan primes his
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tells us about the dilemma of Mr Bret Taylor‚ an American expatriate owner-manager of the well-known hotel Shangri-La Fijian Resort in Yanuka Island of Fiji on the Tau relationship between his potential manager Moala and the new trainee waitress‚ Salome Suacake. The Shangri-La’s Fijian Resort (FIJIAN) is a world international hotel and has a strong reputation throughout the world for more than 30 years old. It has 450 rooms with more than 800 employees which most of them are from the indigenous
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Salmone The Page of Heroidias‚ and some soldiers are gathered on a balcony overlooking a well. Offstage‚ Herod is conducting a banquet with many guests. While a man and the Page discuss the moon‚ a figure for Salome ‚four soldiers discuss a group of Jews in Herod’s court‚ who are arguing their religion. They become anxious that the Tetrarch is "sombre" because he is looking at someone‚ and they try to determine who it is. They begin a conversation about religion‚ and one of the soldiers reveals
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