Interactive Oral Commentary: Stealing My name is Kate Sampson and today I will be analysing Carol Ann Duffy’s poem‚ Stealing. To begin with‚ I will provide some background information to help put the themes in this poem into context. It was published in the 1980’s during Margaret Thatcher’s Prime Ministership‚ it is essentially a political poem in response to a new culture of greed and selfishness that ignored the working-class. There were constant poll tax riots‚ miner’s strikes‚ homelessness
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For my read aloud I read Louanne Pig in the Mysterious Valentine by Nancy Carlson to Tina Gwyn’s kindergarten class. This book is about a pig named Louanne who receives a valentine in her mailbox but‚ it is addressed from a secret admirer. She only has one clue about who sent it‚ she knows the person has a green pen because that is the color of the signature on the valentine. Louanne is determined to find out who sent it‚ so she spends her day snooping around hoping to find someone who owns a green
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What connections have you found between the ways Duffy and Pugh present social attitudes in their poems? Plan Intro: Duffy and Pugh present social attitudes in different ways... Duffy empowers women‚ Pugh has negative views on aging. Core Poem 1: standing female nude is about a woman who works for a poor wage for something which is out of her comfort zone… hello is about aging and how you get forgotten about. Isolation‚ powerless. Core Poem 2: Mrs midas is about the consequences of midas’s actions
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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 that to me seems very secretive‚ I think this is what Duffy uses to make it‚ relationships in this poem seem very secretive. In the poem Lovesick the poem seems much happier and upbeat‚ the poem seems to be about someone who wants their love to be known. In the opening line Duffy writes "I found an apple" I believe that the apple is representative
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“Shooting Stars” Critical Essay In this critical essay I will be writing on account of “shooting Stars” by Carol Ann Duffy. Duffy successfully reveals the true horrors of the Second World War using a wide variety of poetic techniques‚ of which in this task I will evaluate and finally conclude with my own opinion. Throughout the dramatic monologue Duffy encourages sympathy towards the female persona by using a range of imagery‚ structure and word choice. The persona appears to be a woman who
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Jimmy Valentine is a guy who has broken into several safes and stolen thousands of dollars. He was taken to jail as soon as the police found him‚ however broke out before finishing his full sentence. After robbing several more safes using his trusty tools that he made himself‚ he scurried off to Logansport‚ Indiana. He went there to open a shoe business‚ and see how robbing worked in that part of town. There he saw place called Elmore bank and was on his way to rod it when he saw the most beautiful
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day of love. BODY I. History a. St. Valentine i. Catholic church recognizes at least 3 different saints named Valentine or Valentinus ii. Martyred for marrying young men and women when it was outlawed by Emperor Claudius iii. St. Valentine was martyred for trying to help Christians escape from Roman prisons iv. Legend of first written valentine by St. Valentine 1. Jailor’s daughter b. First
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black privilege”‚ poet Crystal Valentine examines just that. Valentine exposes the truth about the experiences and realities of being black in America. Explaining‚ in satirical
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HARRY LAVENDER ESSAY All characters have their own distinctive voices but the main voice is Cluadia Valentine and she makes all other characters involved in her search to find the real truth of the crime that has been committed to Mark Bannister. Claudia Valentine is drawn into Harry Lavenders web of corruption and the world of organised crime behind Sydney’s established image. Marele Days choice to take the traditional ’hardboiled’ private investigator approach and not only challenge the stereotyping
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Originally Introduction Memories play a significant role in the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy‚ particularly her recollections of childhood places and events. The poem “Originally‚” published in The Other Country (1990)‚ draws specifically from memories of Duffy’s family’s move from Scotland to England when she and her siblings were very young. The first-born child‚ Duffy was just old enough to feel a deep sense of personal loss and fear as she traveled farther and farther away from the only place she
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