Commentary on “Originally” by Carol Ann Duffy Outgrowing childhood is leaving many cherished people‚ memories and treasures behind. Emigrating in childhood is leaving a culture‚ a language and a home behind. Carol Ann Duffy moved from Glasgow‚ Scotland to Stafford‚ England when she was six years old‚ in the 1960s‚ thus later writing this poem “Originally”. Through laying out childhood memories and ending on the note that she hesitates when asked of her origin‚ Carol Ann Duffy expresses regret that she has
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Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came Posted on February 18‚ 2013 by Bryan Scalici Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came I would like to comment on how Browning characterizes Roland’s past in “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”. As he travels the ridiculously bleak landscape leading to the Dark Tower‚ the only living thing he encounters is an emaciated demon horse. Roland‚ already downtrodden by the setting‚ sees this horse and feels simultaneous pity and hatred‚ and comes to point where he needs
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To be detached is to be out off society and to look upon it only observant and uncaring. Although Carol Ann Duffy may write many detached personas within her poems and use a lot of themes of isolation‚ loneliness and all round being away or in some way abused by society‚ I think that she herself is not in fact completely detached. An example of one of the methods of her writing that may make her seem detached is her Persona within Education for Leisure. Straight off from the first line of the
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Compare the presentation of Lady Macbeth and Miss Havisham. Explore how Shakespeare and Dickens present them as disturbed women. Disturbed is a definition of someone who has emotional or mental problems; both Lady Macbeth and Miss Havisham are presented as disturbed characters in one way or another. These two leading women both have characteristics that were not stereotypical of woman at the time periods that the play and the novel were set in; making them immediately appear strange to the audience
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Mrs Quasimodo is a poem from the The World’s Wife collection by Carol Anne Duffy which takes characters and myths from history that focus on famous men. However‚ Duffy’s feminist view allows the reader to see the women’s‚ who were previously hidden behind these men‚ point of view. This poem focuses on the novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame‚ Quasimodo is the hunchbacked bell-ringer so the poem pretends as though he has a wife. He falls in love with a beautiful Gypsy and Mrs Quasimodo starts to feel
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like "Dark green pebbles" hints to the hardness of stone but also the green is jealousy. She has become trapped by obsession: thinking‚ praying and waiting for her fiance. The word "Spinster" is a one word sentence‚ almost spat out in distaste. Havisham describes her condition "I stink and remember" the words refer to her smell from wearing the same clothes but also the stench of the terrible thing that has happened to her. The events have changed her and there is real sadness and fear behind the
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The Laboratory by Robert Browning & Macbeth (Act 1) Similarities Both texts are loosely based on real life events. The characters in both texts are anticipating a murder that they will commit. They both lust for something and are extremely excited about the prospect. “may pour my spirits into thine ear” and “unsex me” ~ Lady Macbeth will do anything to become queen even if she says free me from all my femininity so I can become a murderer. “wild” ~ cannot control her excitement and cannot
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Robert Frost‚ “Out‚Out—“ 1. In line 15‚ Frost describes the saw as being sinister. He infers that the saw has a mind of its own‚ by stating that the saw jumped out of the boy’s hand and cut the boy’s hand terribly. Frost also makes it seem as if the saw is in a way‚ like a friend. He does this by demonstrating that using the saw is an advantage for the boy because it is making his job ten times easier. Without the saw‚ the boy would spend hours cutting through the wood. 2. In Frost’s poem
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How does Carol Ann Duffy create character? The two poems I will be focusing on today are ’Girl talking’ and ’Lizzie‚six’. Both poems follow two innocent children that were abused either sexually or physically. There are two apparent themes in both poems‚ Loss of innocence and also Growing up. I will be discussing both of these and in which way are they portrayed in the poems I have chosen. ’Girl talking’ is a poem based on a young girl who was raped‚ and died as a result. The poem opens with
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Compare How Two Or More Poets Approach The Theme Of Love A lot of television programmes (soaps) and songs have the theme of love‚ but until the latter part of the 20th Century‚ poetry was one main source of entertainment‚ along with novels and plays. Traditional love poetry is usually romantic‚ comparing the beloved to inconceivable beauty‚ Shakespeare’s poetry being an example. Young love is also a popular subject. A good poem showing this type of love is John Clare’s ’First Love’
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