Carol Ann Duffy is a time traveller. Her poetry frequently steps to one side of an experience and redraws its ostensible shape‚ smudging away at any exclusive edges‚ so that the supposed fixity of an experience or relationship becomes more plastic‚more malleable. I love this creativity in Duffy‚ this capacity for the ‘what if’ or ‘reframe’ in Carol Ann Duffy. For like all great writers‚ she is prepared to renegotiate experience and the past. She believes in resurrection through remembrance‚ and
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A Modest Proposal - study guide Directions: Read and complete the missing pre-reading vocabulary: a. Alms: Money given as charity to the poor b. Chair: (here) a Sedan Chair - a covered chair supported by poles‚ carried by two bearers. c. Deplorable: worthy of severe condemnation d. Episcopal: To do with (here appointed by) a bishop - the adjective refers to church administration at the time Swift wrote. e. Gibbet: Place where criminals are hanged. f. Importune: To ask for urgently or repeatedly
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Havisham A poem in which the speaker’s personality is gradually revealed is "Havisham" by Carol Ann Duffy. The poem is delivered in the persona of Miss Havisham‚ a character from Charles Dickens’ novel‚ "Great Expectations". In the poem‚ Miss Havisham was cruelly stood-up on her wedding day by her fraudster fiancé‚ and as a result she stopped all the clocks‚ stayed in her wedding dress and left the wedding banquet out for decades. Miss Havisham’s bitter and violent personality is revealed
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analyse the short story The Sisters’‚ by James Joyce and to establish some of the multiple possible relations with the other stories in Dubliners. The Sisters’ is the first short story in Dubliners. If we divide the stories according to the stages in life in Dublin childhood‚ adolescence‚ adulthood and public life’ ‚ The Sisters’ belongs to the period of childhood‚ as well as An Encounter’ and Araby’. The first paragraph sets the tone not only of The Sisters’‚ but also of the whole collection
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author is showing the readers that sister Cora does not particularly like Avla Jane’s mother. In my book the husbands of the community are supposed to take on multiple wives to have many children. Sister Cora is the first wife and Alva Jane’s mother is the fourth wife. MAny times throughout the story the author has shown the jealousy that takes place in the house between sister Cora and sister Sherrie. I also believe the author has used that quote to show that sister Cora doesn’t like Alva Jane either
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Commentary on "Valentine" by Carol Ann Duffy Carol Ann Duffy talks of an unorthodox love in her poem “Valentine”‚ where she compares love to an onion. The narrator finds that gift givers portray love incorrectly when she mentions typical Valentine’s Day gifts. The poem is an extended metaphor of love being an onion‚ and she thinks of love as a violent emotion rather than a peaceful one. The narrator compares love to an onion in her poem "Valentine" to show that her opinion of love is unconventional
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In the poem Medusa by Carol Ann Duffy‚ who is the 1st female poet Laurate‚ destructive power of jealousy is described from Medusa’s point of view. Duffy also explores the physical effects of emotional distress when her suspicion‚ doubt and fear transform into a filthy snakes. Duffy displays these by using a powerful language‚ effective tones and different text structures. Carol Ann Duffy uses language very effectively to enhance the understanding and fluency of the poem. She uses alliterations
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Sister Maude In this essay I am going to write about called sister maude. Sister maude is about two sisters who don’t really get along very well‚ also this poet is ambigious becase the poem is unclear the reader does not now how the my dear died or the parents and the my shame‚ also this poem is written in (1830 - 1894) by christina Rossetti. The propse of the poem is to describe how jelousy sisters cuased a death of another. Christina Rossetti uses a range of techniques to show the feelings of
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Qualities of a good sister are: understanding‚ caring‚ non-judgmental‚ good listener‚ giver‚ sympathetic‚ loving‚ supportive but most of all‚ my sister is determined for her and her family to succeed in life. My sister had alot of obstacles in her life like early pragnancy‚ she dropped out of school‚ and she also raised five children. My sister is on of the most determined people I know in my life. My sister was twelve years old when she had her first child. My sister was very young so she didnt
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Kathryn Kisk Sklar’s Women’s Rights Emerges within the Antislavery Movement 1830- 1870‚ the Grimke sisters argued for the natural rights of women and slaves. They believed that all humans are moral beings‚ and are entitled to moral nature and rights. Throughout the documents Sarah and Angelina Grimke were not radical‚ but looked to better humanity in America. Their humanistic values urged the sisters to challenge the domestic roles and values that women in the 1800’s were faced with in their homes
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