------------------------------------------------- Shooting Stars By Carol Ann Duffy ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- “Shooting Stars” is a horrific and moving poem written by Carol Ann Duffy. She adopts the persona of a female Jew speaking out from beyond the grave about her terrifying ordeal before she died in the Holocaust. A powerful impression is left on the reader after reading Duffy’s dramatic monologue and visual descriptions
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‘herstory’. A woman’s voice‚ her opinion and her viewpoint have all been heavily disregarded in the past centuries‚ with a woman being seen as an accessory to a man rather than an individual with the capability to think for herself. However‚ Carol Ann Duffy’s anthology ‘The World’s Wife’ seeks to correct the gender inequalities‚ with the poems Eurydice and Mrs. Midas portraying strong minded and authoritative females that retell the Greek mythological stories from a women’s point of view. In both
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Mine” by Carol Ann Duffy "Before you were mine" is a poem written by a daughter about how she imagines her mother ’s life ten years before the daughter was born. The author describes the photo of her mother with two of her friends. They “shriek at the pavement” and seem to be sharing a joke‚ young and lightsome (line 4). She knows that the thought of having a child one day doesn ’t occur to her mother when she was young and had a lot of dreams. Now remembering her own childhood‚ Duffy thinks of how
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Compare and contrast “Lizzie‚ Six” by Duffy with “Quetzals only come once” by Pugh. In the poem “Lizzie‚ Six” by Carol Ann Duffy‚ a young girl is being questioned by an abusive adult. Every time the child answers‚ the adult gives a negative or threatening response‚ in an almost cruelly sarcastic manner. Similarly‚ the poem “Quetzals only come once” by Sheenagh Pugh describes a young child speaking to an adult. The adult‚ whom we are told is the child’s mother‚ is creating shapes through a
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‘Porphyria’s Lover’ by Robert Browning As A Dramatic Monologue: Dramatic Monologue: The Dramatic Monologue was a popular form of poetry in Robert Browning’s time. It is a form of writing in which the speaker in the poem is a dramatized imaginary character. The monologue is cast in the form of a speech addressed to a silent listener. Its aim is character study or psycho-analysi. In a dramatic monologue‚ the person who speaks is made to reveal himself and the motives that impelled him at some crisis
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IGCSE Coursework Compare and contrast the methods used by Robert Browning to portray the two speakers in ‘My Last Duchess’ and ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ ‘My Last Duchess’ and ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ are both poems about men who appear to have a compulsive need for control over the women in their lives. However‚ the speakers appear to be quite different as we see that the protagonist in ‘My Last Duchess’ is a Duke with a high self-esteem and confidence‚ whereas the protagonist in ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ emerges
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“Before you were mine” uses first person and is written using the patterns of ordinary speech as if the poet is speaking directly to her mother. Although much of what she talks about takes place before Duffy was born she makes her presence felt by using ’I’ to start many phrases. ’I’m ten years away.’ The poet seems to have been stimulated to write after seeing an old photo of her mother enjoying herself with some girl friends when she was a teenager. The poem is written in the present tense as if
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Compare the ways in which Caroline Duffy and Sheenagh Pugh write about and present women in their poems ‘Standing Female Nude’ and ‘Sweet 18’. One may note how the portrayal of women in society is one of the pivotal themes throughout Caroline Duffy’s poetry‚ whether it being one which depicts women’s empowerment‚ isolation or objectification in society. Caroline Duffy is very honest in her poetry‚ she is cynical in the fact that she is renowned for expressing things how they are; as expressed
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poems tell a story; some illustrate what love should or shouldn’t be; some poems express the separation of two loved ones. There is no limit to explaining what love really is. The poems ‘Sonnet 116’ by William Shakespeare and ‘Valentine’ by Carol Ann Duffy both try
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COMPARE AND CONTRAST Russell St.John Ashford University English Composition I 121 Dr. Pamela Klem November 25‚ 2011 Hybrid/Electric Cars vs. Gas Powered Cars There are many makes and models of vehicles on the market that claim to be both environmental friendly and cost effective. The American automotive industry along with their foreign counterparts has provided the consumers with affordable vehicles. It is estimated that alternative vehicles will make up less than 10 percent
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