"In Mrs Tilscher ’s class" by Carol Ann Duffy is about rites of passage‚ the transition from childhood to adolescence and the things we learn at school‚ from our teachers and from our peers. Duffy writes this accessible poem using a variety of techniques that make it a memorable read. The opening stanza has no real hint of what is to come: Duffy shows us a typical day in Mrs. Tilscher ’s class:You could travel up the Blue Nilewith your finger‚ tracing the routewhile Mrs Tilscher chanted the scenery
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Mrs. Aesop In Mrs Aesop‚ Duffy‟s speaker does more than regret a loss; this time‚ her tone is resentful that the man she married has turned out to be an „Asshole‟. Mrs Aesop relies on the reader‟s foreground knowledge that Aesop (a Greek slave) was a literary genius responsible for inventing the allegorical mode; this is the world’s preconceived view of him. By contrast‚ his wife’s starting-point is that‚ no matter how entertaining and instructive Aesop‟s fables are‚ the man himself is a bore -
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one long Journey‚ with good as well as bad times in it. From childhood to old age‚ we strive forever to experience and learn‚ often positive as well as negative turns in life often bringing upon one a lot of change. In the poem ’originally’ by Carol Ann Duffy‚ one reads about a seemingly sudden change in a Childs life‚ where one is confronted with leaving their home‚ their country‚ to live somewhere else unknown. In ’Originally’‚ which is divided into three parts‚ one follows the experiences of a speaker
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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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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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Carol Ann Duffy’s ’Queen Kong [From the world’s wife‚ 1998]’‚ is the feminine version of the American blockbuster movie king Kong‚ where a giant gorilla kidnaps a beautiful model whom he is fond of and climbs the empire state building with. However‚ Duffy’s version has switched up the roles‚ where the gorilla is now a woman‚ and the man who she kidnaps is referred to as ’the little man’ who she is very much in love with. In comparison to my second poem‚ ’To his Coy Mistress’ [1650] by Andrew Marvell
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For my transformation I choose the novel ‘Great Expectations’ by Charles Dickens and transformed it into a poem that targets the attitude and pain of the main character Miss Havisham. One of my main attempts was to focus on her loneliness and bitter personality. I wanted to grasp these points in particular to show the links between her attitude and hatred towards men and the world around her. She has a vengeful side which is portrayed in her violent language ‘stab’ and ‘death’. Her attitude towards
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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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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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Compare and contrast how Duffy and Lochhead explore memories Both Carol Ann Duffy and Liz Lochhead provide an exploration of their childhood memories‚ and how these memories have changed and developed with age into analysis of social expectations of men and women in the 1960’s. In Duffys poem Litany and Lochheads poem 1953‚ both poets reflect on their childish perceptions of their parents conformity to social convention. Duffy and Lochhead excellently implement a dramatic monologue
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