A man driving home through the rundown (shonky) side of town with his children in the backseat sees a heavily tattooed homeless man. The children wince at the sight of the vagrant when he tries to wash the windscreen of the car in the hope of making a few pence. The father tells the children to remember the ’clown punk’ although his reason is unclear. The philosophical tone of the poem would suggest that the speaker wants his children to look past the decay of the clown punk and see his inner
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Flames have been inextricably linked with humanity since the origins of the first civilizations; immortalized in myth‚ commended by culture‚ and worshipped in religion. The epitome of heat and warmth‚ of energy‚ power and action‚ fire’s virtues undoubtedly support the importance it is associated with. Flames keep back the encroaching darkness‚ the perennial cold. It is the internal flame that sparks the innovation and creativity within the human mind and the external fire that has allowed for humans
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feelings. This is really applicable to my work. Co-operative brand: Duffy and Shelliemay The Disney Bear The Story of Duffy and Shelliemay-The Disney Bear: One day‚ Mickey Mouse was getting ready to set sail on a long sea voyage‚ Minnie Mouse made him a special teddy bear to take with him so he would never be loney. Minnie presented her hand sewn bear to Mickey in a duffel bay. Mickey loved the bear and named him Duffy. As Mickey and Duffy sailed on their journey‚ they visited all sorts of exciting places
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by Carol Ann Duffy‚ the current poet laureate‚ is a strikingly poignant poem. It is in the persona of Anne Hathaway‚ Shakespeare’s wife‚ and is perceived to be the opinion of what she thinks about when she is left the second best bed in his will. The sonnet explores the loss felt by Hathaway as she grieves for her husband. Throughout the poem Duffy effectively uses poetic techniques to explore the feeling of loss felt by Hathaway as she is now a widow. The sonnet form allows Duffy the opportunity
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Dream of a Lost Friend How does Duffy powerfully portray the experience of losing a friend in ‘Dream of a Lost Friend’? In this poem‚ Duffy explores how the tragic loss of a close friend affects the mourner‚ and powerfully portrays the implications of their death using imagery‚ structure and emotive language. She touches upon each of the 5 stages of grief and bereavement‚ and conveys the psychological process of each of these: Denial‚ Anger‚ Guilt‚ Depression and Acceptance. Denial is the first
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Analysis of Shooting Star by Carol Ann Duffy By Lucy Johnson Will we ever truly be able to comprehend the atrocities that took place in concentration camps during WWII? Shooting Stars by Carol-Ann Duffy is a poem that highlights the bravery‚ brutality and hardship that Jewish women had to endure in such camps through the voice of a deceased Jewish women. Through literary techniques such as Duffy’s meaningful word choice‚ haunting imagery‚ and punctuation Duffy is able to give a moving account of not
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After he was released‚ he was wounded while taking part in the D Day landings in Normandy. Links with other ‘Relationship’ poems: 1 Fathers/parental relationships (‘Harmonium’‚ ‘Praise Song for My Mother’) 1 Familial relationships (‘Brothers’‚ ‘Sister Maude’‚ ’Harmonium’‚ ‘Praise Song for My Mother’) 1 Specific imagery (military imagery in ‘The Manhunt’; painful imagery in ‘The Manhunt’ and ‘Quickdraw’) ‘Born Yesterday’ by Philip
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into a predominantly Protestant nation. This book primarily focuses on the effect this religious transformation had in the rural countryside of Exmoor. In Voices of Morebath‚ Eamon Duffy shows how Morebath‚ a countryside‚ sheep-farming village of thirty-three families‚ is affected by the Protestant Reformation. Duffy uses only one source to convey his argument‚ and that is with Sir Christopher Trychay’s parish accounts during his fifty four years as priest‚ from 1520 to 1574. Using this one source
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‘Valentine’ by Carol Ann Duffy Not a red rose or a satin heart. I give you an onion. It is a moon wrapped in brown paper. It promises light like the careful undressing of love. Here. It will blind you with tears like a lover. It will make your reflection a wobbling photo of grief. I am trying to be truthful. Not a cute card or a kissogram. I give you an onion. Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips‚ possessive and faithful as we are‚ for as long as we are. Take it
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The poem In Mrs Tither’s class portrays the themes of nostalgia for schooldays and the transition from childhood and adolescence. Duffy uses sensual imagery so that we can experience it ourselves. The first stanza begins with ‘’Mrs Tilscher chanted the scenery. Tana. Ethiopia. Khartoum. Aswan.” The punctuation used between each place gives a rhythm allowing the reader to hear Mrs Tilscher chanting them‚ which seems relaxing. This may reflect what the children feel in Mrs Tilscher’s class: safe and
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