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 them
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Explore the ways in which Armitage vividly portrays a relationship with a parent in Mother‚ any distance greater than a single span. Remember to support your ideas with details from your chosen poem Armitage shows that the speaker and the mother in the poem have a strong relationship. At the start of the poem he shows a strong bond shown between the mother and child‚ even though they aren’t together‚ this is shown in the quotation; “Mother‚ any distance greater than a single span requires a second
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"Hitcher" By Simon Armitage‚ "Education For Leisure" By Carol Anne Duffy‚ "My Last Duchess" and "The Lab" by Robert Browning are all poems that deal with violence or the prospect of violence. ‘The Laboratory’ is a dramatic monologue about a woman who has discovered her husband is having an affair with two other women. She is plotting to poison both of the mistresses. My Last Duchess’ is also a dramatic monologue in which the Duke is telling his new bride father’s representative about a portrait of
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Stealing Freedom is a book about a young gil who is trapped between her freedom and her family. In the beginning Ann is about 11 years old. She lives in a plantation in Unity‚ Maryland with her three brothers‚ mom and dad. the problem of the story is Ann can’t decide whether or not she should run away and risk the chance to never see her family again. Her mom makes most of her families meals. She mainly cooks corn mush‚ but it keeps her family alive. During the time she does not work she cleans
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ENGLISH COURSEWORK - WAR POEMS The first poem is a pre-1900 poem written by Walt Whitman. It is called "Come Up From The Fields Father". This poem tells the story of how a family hear the news that their son has been wounded in battle. Firstly it describes his sister receiving the letter and calling for her father and mother. The poet then goes on to describe the settings of the farm and the background to it. "Where apples ripe in the orchards hang and grapes on the trellis’d vines." "The sky
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precise‚ two- lined‚ separate stanzas. I think Simon Armitage did this to emphasize the SMALL steps in this painstaking process of returning a man to the real world after all the suffering and traumatizing scenes he has witnessed in war. There is also some repetition of the structure of the stanzas which all contain two verbs each‚ an example of this is in the fourth stanza‚ where it states‚ “And handle and hold his damaged porcelain collar bone.” Armitage might have done this to symbolise and bring forward
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difficult experiences of love? (45 minutes) The poem ’Manhunt’ was written by Simon Armitage for women experiencing marital problems after their husbands returned from war. Similarly‚ ’Quickdraw’ has a main theme of painful love and the hope of repairing it. Both poets explore the idea of the women desperately attempting to fix their damaged relationships and describing the suffering that it brings with it. Simon Armitage devises war metaphors and phrases to present the aftermath of returning from war
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of loving someone again. Themes & Compare Love/Hate Relationships: The Laboratory‚ My Last Duchess‚ Sonnet 130 Anne Hathaway‚ Before you were mine‚ Havisham Mother any distance‚ Kid Death The Laboratory‚ My Last Duchess‚ Havisham Hitcher Family/Parent/Child Relationships Affliction of Margaret Before you were mine Mother any distance‚ Kid Sonnet 130 What happens in the poem? ‘Sonnet 130’ is about true love and showing the reality of a relationship Shakespeare endures
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‘Praise Song for My Mother’ written by Grace Nichols and ‘Morning Song’ Sylvia Plath both convey the emotional connection between mother and child‚ in the form of how a mother loves for and impacts her child. In ‘Praise Song for My Mother’‚ Nichols conveys the mother to be “Deep and bold and fathoming” as well as showing she is the “rise and warm and streaming” displaying the mother was a strong and bright figure in the Child’s life‚ through comforting and natural imagery. However‚ Plath’s persona
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of the past‚ or a sense of renewal or cleansing. The ambiguous ending of the poem is typical of an autobiographical poem where the poet is writing from memory. In an interview with BBC Bradford and Yorkshire Armitage explained that the clown punk in the poem is based on a man Armitage saw around town: I used to see around town quite a lot‚ who once pressed his face up against the windscreen of my car while I was stopped at the traffic lights. There’s a tradition in English Literature of writing
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