What techniques has Carol Ann Duffy used in her poetry to make old stories and fables relevant to modern audiences? Comment on upon the use of language‚ imagery and structure. ’Mrs. Faust’ is written in the casual‚ contemporary style which suits its setting and adds fittingly to the collection of ’The Worlds Wife’. In this collection most poems explore the feminist principles or the modern state of them. This poem however‚ introduces a new issue to the collection; the materialistic nature of
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In Carol Ann Duffy’s poem‚ ‘education for leisure’ and Sheenagh Pugh’s‚ ‘she was nineteen and she was bored’‚ both poets look on modern society in a negative way. Both poems look at the themes of suffering and unhappiness when cast out from society.which are two states that are inextricably linkable. Unhappiness can come as a result of suffering‚ or the need to make others suffer can come from pure unhappiness. Duffy and Pugh both make these distinctions in their work‚ and are able to engage the
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World’s Wife’ is a collection of poems written by Carol Ann Duffy in which the writer takes on the persona of a range of characters; these being real‚ fictional‚ mythical and biblical. The wives in the collection may be of long suffering‚ but they are not victims. Duffy tackles controversial issues and her women are by no means victorious‚ but she shows the women as they are; not the stereotypical feministic view but angry‚ sardonic‚ impatient women. Duffy seeks to highlight the ways in which women were
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2) What are your feelings about the photographer and his work as you read the poem? Show how the words of the poem have created these feelings in you. After reading Carol Ann Duffy’s poem the “War Photographer”‚ I feel pitiful for the war photographer‚ knowing that he cannot that he would not be able to lead a normal life once the memories from the battlefield haunts him. I also feel that we as society are glad to keep a distance from the harsh realities of war while being just superficially sympathetic
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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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Bibliography Duffy‚ C. (1999) The World’s Wife‚ London: Picador Word Count Total: 1329 Words Without Quotations‚ Bibliography‚ and Poem Titles: 1193 Words Michael Owens 4175 How typical‚ in terms of language‚ style‚ structure and concerns is ‘Anne Hathaway’ of the collection? Carol Ann Duffy presents Anne Hathaway as a character who is deeply in love with her partner whom she is writing a poem for. This poem shows that the collection is not an act of revenge‚ as it shows
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For Hours and Hours and Hours “Its all your fault‚ don’t deny it.” he was calm collected and obviously aware of the victory to come. “No... I did nothing‚” my sister yelled at him‚ oblivious to how childish she sounded‚ rage was hidden in her voice. Honestly I don’t know why she stays with him‚ they argue when nothing is wrong. He can’t even support himself‚ I don’t know why she tolerates him forgetting dates and birthdays. She could do so much better‚ but I guess shes afraid to lose him.
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40 lines of poetry by Carol Ann Duffy and discuss how far these lines reflect her view on love as presented in “The Worlds Wife” “Thetis” by Carol Ann Duffy explores feminist views of the writer which is demonstrated through the pursuit to find love and the power struggle for female independence. Thetis is one of Duffy’s poems in the cluster “The Worlds Wife”‚ which has not been defined by a prefix of “Mrs” unlike the poems “Mrs Lazarus”‚ “Mrs Midas” and “Mrs Aesop”. Duffy empowers women by giving
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Questions over articles. Differentiating Instruction Why Bother? By Carol Ann Tomlinson‚ in Middle Ground‚ August 2005‚ Volume 9‚ Number 1. 1. The author opens the article telling about two of her middle grades teacher‚ one math teacher and one English teacher. a. Briefly describe and compare these two teachers. In this article author has describe both Math and English teachers clearly and their method of teaching. Math teacher has her own teaching method and English teacher has own. If I compare
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Duffys Forest Summary Duffys Forest is a northern Sydney suburb that sits about 28 kilometres from the central business district. It is part of the Northern Beaches and is also part of the Forest District. The biggest attraction and claim to fame for Duffys Forest is the Waratah Park Earth Sanctuary that was closed down in the 1970s due to the lack of tourists. This sanctuary was where they filmed the show‚ Skippy the Bush Kangaroo. In August of 2009‚ all animals were removed from the sanctuary and
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