How does Duffy present the theme of time in ’The Captain of the 1964 Top of the Form Team’? In the poem‚ ’The Captain of the 1964 Top of the Form Team’ by Carol Ann Duffy‚ many themes are frequently explored‚ time is a huge theme presented throughout‚ there are many relations and connections to time and how it changes people‚ affects our behaviour etc‚ this theme if explored by Duffy using a variety of techniques including structure‚ language‚ dramatic techniques and imagery used. Firstly time
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women are presented in ‘Salome’ and ‘Havisham’ The two poems are written by a twentieth century poet called Carol Ann Duffy. In her poems women are presented in various ways. For example‚ the women in her poems ‘Salome’ and ‘Havisham’ are both quite deranged together with disturbed characteristics as they view love and relationships in two different ways – anger and bitterness. Duffy is known to write about traumatising scenes from childhood‚ adolescence‚ and adult life through love‚ memory and language;
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Valentine: Poetry Essay The poem “Valentine” written by the present poet laureate in UK‚ Carol Ann Duffy‚ subverts the idealized and universal idea of love and projects the dual nature of its essence. She rejects the gifts conventionally associated with Valentine’s Day‚ such as ‘red-rose’‚ ‘satin cloth’‚ ‘cute card’‚ ‘kissogram’ and brings a Copernican revolution with the option of “Onion” as a gift which acts as an extended metaphor throughout the poem. Insofar as the techniques are
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War Photographer Carol Ann Duffy brings to light the tribulations of those afflicted by war. She delineates this agony through the use of emotive lexis‚ when the photographer thinks about the throes of those he photographed‚ and he sees “running children in a nightmare heat.” This is the photographer remembering children who have been hit with napalm‚ and have no chance of surviving. Literally‚ the use of the word “heat” refers to the napalm used on the children‚ and how much suffering and agony
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Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy – Analysis of Poem Summary of the poem… The poem details the inner conflict within a war photographer as he returns home to rural England after an assignment. Throughout the poem the photographer struggles to contain his feelings as the horrors he has witnessed resurface in his everyday life. The purpose of the poem is to demonstrate the suffering and devastation‚ both physically and emotionally‚ caused by war. THEMES In her poem Duffy deals with various themes
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the ever-increasing size of her anger: she is not being satiated by these random acts of destruction. They are merely leading her towards greater‚ more powerful targets until she seems unstoppable” (Geddes 56). The concluding line “Look at me now” (Duffy 41) endorses the power Medusa has which enables her to wreck vengeance on menfolk. Medusa represents women who had undergone an ordeal in a male-dominated society and
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KThe Kray Sisters 1. Background Collection – ‘The World’s Wife’ (1999) * Motif - The poems in this collection of Duffy look at the heroes and villains of history and myth‚ which focus on men‚ from the female perspective‚ usually in the voice of a real or imagined wife. * Focus/Theme - Carol Ann Duffy’s poems focus on the female perspective. In ‘The World’s Wife’ Duffy has achieved this by giving female characters a voice to speak out against male dominance; it also portrays a different
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“War Photographer” critical essay “War Photographer” by Carol Ann Duffy is a poem that uses features such as word choice‚ imagery and tone to make us feel pity for the main character. The poem is about the emotional struggles that the war photographer faces daily in his job. The author has written the poem to make us question the morality of taking photographs of people suffering in war zones. “War Photographer” makes us feel pity by using effective word choice. “Hands...tremble” The
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Hannah Olmstead Ashley Keyser Reading Response #1 The Real Meaning Behind “Boy” The poem “Boy” may be seen by some readers as a recollection of childhood memories entailing what it was like to once be a young child. The speaker of this poem describes the “internal wanting” to be a young boy again‚ and uses poetic devices to try and convey this in an innocent and simplistic manner. I believe‚ however‚ that the poem depicts a more painful and complicated series of emotions described by the
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Compare the ways the poets use structure to develop ideas about a relationship in ‘Sonnet 43’ and one other poem (36 marks) Carol Ann Duffy and Elizabeth Barrett Browning use a range of structural techniques to develop ideas about the relationships within the poems ‘Quickdraw’ and ‘Sonnet 43’. Both ‘Quickdraw’ and ‘Sonnet 43’ are written in the form of sonnets‚ although ‘Quickdraw’ is in the form of a loose sonnet so it does not follow the typical conventions of a traditional sonnet‚ but both have
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