“What connections have you found between the ways Duffy and Pugh explore the power and limitations of language? In your response you must include detailed critical discussion of at least two of Duffy’s poems.” Duffy explores the “power of words” in being able to translate as well as influence complex emotions and thoughts‚ thus reflecting on the possibilities of language. She addresses the elusive nature of meaning‚ which –although expressed uniformly through language-is also restricted in being
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‘A Person I Admire’ Conor Duffy 11 (4) The person I admire is Saint Maximilian Kolbe. He was born on 8th January 1894 and died on 14th August 1941.He was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz in Poland. He was canonized on 10 October 1982 by Pope John Paul II‚ and declared a martyr of charity. He is the patron saint of drug addicts; political prisoners; families; journalists; prisoners; amateur radio; and
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“War Photographer” A poem which encourages the reader to feel sympathy is “War Photographer” by Carol Ann Duffy. The persona you are encouraged to feel sympathy towards is the war photographer. The poem features a war photographer who tries to deliver the message that suffering is wrong and should be stopped but is made to realise that the people “do not care” and his job is futile. The poet makes use of word choice‚ imagery and structure to show that the war photographer feels isolated and
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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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Medusa by Carol Ann Duffy The poem Medusa explores the theme of jealousy and anger; the poet illustrates this using the extended metaphor of a Greek mythological creature Medusa‚ whose story describes her as a beautiful maiden that is turned into a hideous creature after being raped by Poseidon. The poet furthermore links this metaphor to the theme of feminism when she describes the women in the poem overpowering the man that hurt her. The language in this poem is quite harsh‚ emphasising the
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Patricia Duffy‚ the defendant‚ started to work at Silver Maple as a billing specialist on April 28‚ 2008. Ms. Duffy was working in the same department as Michael Simmons‚ the plaintiff. Annie Thomas is the supervisor of Ms. Duffy and Mr. Simmons. Ms. Duffy stated that she found Mr. Simmons attractive and that she flirted with him at work. On August 2‚ 2008‚ Mr. Simmons stated that Ms. Duffy walked into his cubical‚ rubbed his neck and shoulders‚ and told him that he was handsome. On August
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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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chastity is so important to her‚ that she wont give in to his seduction techniques. Queen Kong is set in New York and uses places of familiarity such as the Brooklyn Bridge‚ Bloomingdales and things associated with New York such as yellow taxi cabs. Duffy starts the poem off with ’I’‚ in the first hand describing the gorillas time in New York in the first stanza. In comparison to ’His Coy Mistress’‚ the first line of the poem ’Had we but world enough and time..’‚ starts off presenting a logical argument
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films‚ as the title suggests. "Gunslingers" is a term used in the western to describe those who fight with guns‚ often shooting from the hip. The poem starts by replacing weapons with mobile phones: "like guns‚ slung from the pockets on my hips". Duffy is making a humorous comment on the way in which relationships can be like a fight‚ or "showdown"‚ but the imagery also suggests violence in the characters. There is a light-hearted mood to the poem‚ created by images that are typical of slapstick
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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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