Human Interest is a poem revealing how love can drive people to murderous levels. Written by Carol Ann Duffy‚ this poem displays the treatment of women with a modern‚ chilling storyline. The use of Iambic Pentameter adds a rhythmical‚ fluctuating quality to the poem. This is also present in William Shakespeare’s‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ however the way Shakespeare executs this is to portray the love shown. Whereas in Duffy’s poem‚ iambic pentameter is used to create an ‘on edge’ feeling. It also can be
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Little Red Cap: Commentary Paper Little Red Cap is written by Carol Ann Duffy found in a collection of poems that she wrote about the voices of women and the voice they had compared to the voices of their husbands or partners. This poem works well to portray a rather eerie twist on an old fairytale as most of her stories tend to do. First‚ the title of the poem grabs your attention and reminds you of “Little Red Riding Hood”‚ a children’s fairy tale surrounding the life of one little girl.
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they still have one of the highest poverty rates for in the industrialized world. Through reading many articles such as Ann Duffy and Nancy Mandell’s “Poverty in Canada”‚ others that I have found online‚ and my own personal experience I have learned the numerous reasons why so many people in a well industrialized nation such as Canada are struggling with poverty. WORD JOURNAL Duffy and Mandell portray many themes around poverty in their article “poverty in Canada”‚ but there is one word that really
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in ‘Hour’ time is the dominant figure from love. In the poem‚ ‘Hour’‚ Carol Ann Duffy is talking about how one ‘Hour’ of their day can be spent as if they have all the time in the world. Using the tales of Rumpelstiltskin and King Midas‚ Duffy has managed to compare time and love in very different ways. This sonnet is a typical sonnet: it has 14 lines‚ it talks of love and it has a rhyming couplet at the end. Duffy has decided to put a rhyming couplet at the end because it is like a conclusion
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that I have recently studied: Pablo Neruda‚ Carol Ann Duffy‚ e.e cummings and Theodore Roethke. While each of these four poets has influenced me emotionally and intellectually with their poetry‚ the first three aforementioned poets have left the strongest impression on my outlook of poetry. Therefore‚ this anthology will be dedicated to these three poets as I attempt to write poems that have been inspired by the unique writing styles of Neruda‚ Duffy and cummings. There are four poems in total in
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In this paper I am going to compare and contrast a literary text (Education for Leisure by Carol Ann Duffy) and a non literary text (Newspaper article from “The Independent” by Nigel Morris) focussing on the language features used‚ the structural and presentational devices‚ the use of correct punctuations‚ analyse the structure of the non literary text for bias and the techniques used to convey meaning and ideas by both authors. The objective of literary texts is to teach the readers a life lesson
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biblical story which the women are portrayed to be ‘immoral and dangerous’’. Duffy has modernised this story and placed Salome as the narrator‚ whilst also fulfilling the expectations of a feminist text by challenging stereotypical ideas of conventional gender roles. It is interesting‚ however‚ that unlike other poems in the “Worlds Wife” ‘Salome’ has been received negatively as stated by Janet Lewison “Salome by Carol Ann Duffy: the ‘soul-lessness of cliché?”1. It can be argued that it is ‘soulless’
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of "The Kray Sisters" is to amuse and entertain. Carol Ann Duffy begins with the poem with a declarative statment "there are the twins". It is in italics‚ to show it is an outside voice saying it. This shows that they have a reputation and are well known. There is cheerfulness implied here but the “geezers” are probably actually fearful of the twins and not pleased to see them as imagined and the line could be interpreted either way. Duffy also uses cockney rhyming slang throughout‚ (frog and toad
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Carol Ann Duffy’s poem ’Havisham’ is a dramatic monologue written from the eyes of the infamous character Miss Havisham who is extracted from Dickens’s ’Great Expectations’. Miss Havisham is a very disturbing character for a number of different reasons conceived by the pain and hurt she has endured through out her life after being jilted at the altar many years before the poem is set. Through out Havisham we learn that there is more underlying problems to Havisham than what was once acknowledged
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Examine the ways in which poets portray the experience of love in 2 poems that you have read. You may wish to explore the types of love‚ the effects of love and how the poets use language and structure. In Havisham and Sonnet 43 we are given a good idea of how two poets can have different opinions on the experience of love. Havishams experience of love is violent with dark implications of death “Beloved sweetheart bastard.” The plosive alliteration of B emphasises her hatred towards her ex and
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