Show how Duffy conveys her feelings about a member of her family in ‘Before You Were Mine’ In ‘Before You Were Mine’‚ Carol Ann Duffy uses a large range of poetic techniques to convey her feelings about her mother. The title of the poem contains a possessive pronoun that makes the reader instantly get a sense of possessiveness towards her mother‚ rather than the original thought that a mother would be saying that about her child‚ which shows an inverse on the usual way to use the phrase. The first
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Another poem which conceives the theme of loss is “Mother‚ Any Distance”. The link between them is the grief of when the child has to move on and find their own path moving away from their old home and family. This is conveyed through “ I reached towards the hatch”‚ where Armitage uses the verb “reach” to amplify that it still has to take effort for the persona to be able to retrieve what he wants. By reaching towards the hatch‚ he is moving away from something‚ linking to the context‚ it could be
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Compare how women are presented in 4 of the poems you have studied. To do this compare “Mother...” by Simon Armitage and 3 other poems‚ one by Duffy and two from the pre 1914 bank. All 4 poems ( Mother‚ Anne Hathaway‚ Sonnet 130 and song of the old mother) are all linked to each other all by using different techniques of language to present women and to create some story in there poem. Mother (written by Simon Armitage)‚ the woman (the mother) in the poem is presented in a form of imagery. Armitage
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Before You Were Born I am going to talk about how my family got over here from Ireland. Stuff for about my great grandparents. I am going to talk about some stories that my grandpa told me about his dad and my dad. My three topics I like because you get to know stuff about my family My family came over from Ireland because there was a drought. They came over on a boat. They settled in Nebraska where they stared to farm. They came on their own. How we got to south Dakota was because of my great grandpa
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Compare your Responses to ‘Kid’ by Simon Armitage with you Responses to one poem Carol Ann Duffy and tow from the pre-1914 Poetry Bank Poets use features of form‚ structure and language to force the reader to respond in different ways to different poems. Different methods of language are used by poets to produce different feelings about a speaker or generate descriptions of certain people. ‘Kid’ by Simon Armitage is a poem focusing on the partnership of Batman and Robin. It is a monologue from
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Writing About Poetry Stealing Introduction • Poem’s title in inverted commas: ‘Stealing’ • Poet’s name: Carol Ann Duffy • Respond to wording of the task • Briefly (two or three lines) explain what happens in the poem • Display an understanding of the poem • Mention the techniques used by Duffy‚ which you will be discussing Narcissistic‚ violent‚ uncaring; the narrator of Carol Ann Duffy’s dramatic monologue ‘Stealing’ is most certainly an unpleasant character. The narrator‚ apparently in
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The Armitages consider the black people as similar use as props. The black people’s identity is being stolen and used as props without having the understanding and struggle they have endured. This is portrayed through Georgina and Walter as well as Andrew at the cocktail party. Missy‚ Rose’s mother‚ uses the spoon as a hypnotizing and controlling implement that knocks a person down with three clicks of her spoon. The silver spoon is a significant object as it demonstrates the control she has over
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Essay The Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy The poem is written in the first person. Duffy gives her lover an onion in which represents St Valentines Day. The onion is a gift rather than a card or a rose‚ Duffy uses this unusual gift but in fact it’s a statement of love. The onion a (metaphor) is a strong ugly vegetable‚ not only does it show love but can show the inner beauty with in the onion itself. There are good points and bad points in love however there are consequences of what love can
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1991; children: Rocket Valentino‚ Racer Maximiliano‚ Rebel Antonio. Education: University of Texas at Austin‚ B.A. Taking do-it-yourself methods to inspiring extremes‚ Robert Rodriguez helped revolutionize low-budget filmmaking with El Mariachi (1992) before ultimately recalibrating the notion of independence as a one-man writer‚ director‚ producer‚ editor‚ composer‚ and special effects man. With El Mariachi Rodriguez used invention to surmount seeming limitations; ironically the limitations of the story
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How does Armitage create an atmosphere of detachment? Simon Armitage wrote the poem ‘Mother‚ any distance greater than a single span’‚ it suggests a strong theme of detachment throughout. Although a short poem‚ it holds a lot of meaning that can be interpreted in several different ways. Firstly‚ each stanza ends with a position of different height. Beginning ‘floors’ then ‘kite’ and lastly ‘fly’. Each suggest the narrator is moving further away from reality and is distancing themselves from
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