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    Valentine Valentine By Carol Ann Duffy By Carol Ann Duffy Valentine is a love poem written by Carol Ann Duffy. Throughout the poem she compares love to an onion. She does this by using different techniques such as imagery ‚ word structure and of course by using poetic devices. All these techniques help her make this poem so special and unusual‚ and it helps her to describe her own points of view about love. ‘Not a red rose or a satin heart.’ Is the first line of the poem. The poet creates

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    In Havisham‚ Carol Ann Duffy creates an interesting character. Write about the way the character is created‚ and compare this with the way other characters are created in three other poems. You should compare it with one poem by Simon Armitage and two poems from the pre-1912 poetry bank. In Havisham‚ Carol Ann Duffy explores the character of Mrs Havisham and develops her by using vivid imagery and metaphors. She starts the poem with ‘Beloved sweetheart bastard’ which is an oxymoron‚ used to display

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    Carol Ann Duffy: Stealing

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    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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    Innocence and Experience

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    world will their innocence last? How long will it take for a human being to experience something that causes them to lose all innocence? Innocence is a characteristic of life that is slowly taken away by experience‚ just like how in Gerard Manley Hopkins poem‚ Spring and Fall‚ the cool winds of fall strip the trees of their leaves‚ leaving them bare for everyone to see. The entirety of the poem is all about innocence and experience and how they interact with each other. The first few lines of the

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    In the short story “Janus”‚ by Ann Beattie‚ the central character is not a real character at all‚ but in fact is an inanimate object.   The cream colored ceramic bowl serves as the main character throughout the story‚ and is correlated to the Roman God “Janus” that is identified primarily with doors or other places of passage‚ and is also represented as being two faced.   Janus is one of two characters with names‚ which is also evident of her importance throughout the story.   The author uses the

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    Valentine Carol Ann Duffy

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    How does Carol Ann Duffy use language and imagery to explore love. Throughout the poem ‘Valentine’ love is explored in different ways for example in the first stanza ‘careful undressing of love’ has various meanings‚ one being the comparison of the onion which is supposed to mirror her heart‚ the core of her love; to get to her heart you have to take time to remove each layer of emotion in contrast to an onion where to get to the core you have to remove the layers of skin. You must be careful with

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    Conclusion of Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy Duffy uses an onion in her poem as she shows how this object can represent the positive aspect of love. In this poem she is saying that her love is different and unique. The first stanza tells us she is not giving what would be typically labelled as love like ’a red rose’. Instead‚ she gives an onion. An onion is very unusual gift to give to someone you care about. Although onions are acidic‚ smelly and not very appealing‚ she makes connection by comparing

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    Somthing That God Made

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    Something that God Made This story is true story about two innovators Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas. Dr. Alfred Blalock who is chief surgical professors at Johns Hopkins University was the number one school of surgeons where he is pioneering new techniques in heart surgery. Vivien is black man with little education but has a high school diploma. His hopes were to go to and college and strive for his passion for medicine

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    In 1951 and African American woman was diagnosed with cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital‚ since it was one of the only hospitals that would treat black patients. During one of her exams‚ cells were taken from her cervix without her consent or knowledge. Little did she or her family know that these cells would go on to help make the polio vaccine‚ help to develop cloning‚ and gene mapping to name a few. These cells advanced medicine tremendously‚ but no one knew where they came from; only that

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    Carol Ann Duffy Diction

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    The poem ‘Valentine’ by Carol Ann Duffy portrays a realistic and honest view on love. Duffy has a unique perspective of love contrasting to the stereotypical way love is often thought about. She compares love to an onion‚ which is odd because an onion is neither visually appealing nor valued but Duffy’s insight on love and unconventional way of perceiving love is what makes the poem Valentine interesting. She presents her ideas by using a range of different poetic devices such as‚ choosing a distinct

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