childhood experience and the poignancy of losing that innocence. A clear and concise thesis. We are expecting focus to be on ‘environment and culture’ in the poems with comments on the emotional range of pain‚ delight and poignancy to be evident. Duffy uses culture as a context for exploring childhood memory in ‘Captain of the Form’‚ where she adopts a male persona whose unhappy present is reconciled with the idealisation of childhood memory‚ evoking a real sense of 1960’s Britain‚ and thereby joining
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does this by close reference to the poem. ‘In Mrs Tilscher’s Class’ by Carol Ann Duffy is a poem about a young person entering the transition from childhood to adolescence. She shows the safety and security of the class through the use of techniques such as simile‚ listing and diction. However‚ she also hints at the dangers one will confront if they were to leave the classroom through the use of diction. One way Duffy shows the safety and security in Mrs Tilscher’s class is by comparing it to a sweet
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With particular reference to ‘Mrs. Lazarus’ show how Carol Ann Duffy presents relationships between men and women The World’s Wife originates from the idiom ‘The World and His Wife’ which is commonly used to express a large amount of people‚ however after understanding the feminist concept of Carol Ann Duffy’s work this idiom can be interpreted in a different light. The phrase may actually present men in a powerful position; it personifies the world and by doing so assumes that this great miracle
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Compare and contrast “Lizzie‚ Six” by Duffy with “Quetzals only come once” by Pugh. In the poem “Lizzie‚ Six” by Carol Ann Duffy‚ a young girl is being questioned by an abusive adult. Every time the child answers‚ the adult gives a negative or threatening response‚ in an almost cruelly sarcastic manner. Similarly‚ the poem “Quetzals only come once” by Sheenagh Pugh describes a young child speaking to an adult. The adult‚ whom we are told is the child’s mother‚ is creating shapes through a
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childhood to adult life she discovers consolation and relief from love. The collections poems are questioning theories‚ marriage and themes such as feminism. Duffy does this in a very liberated‚ witty and sometimes uncomfortable way. Demeter successfully brings this collection to a close in my opinion as just as the reader has become accustomed to Duffys bold‚ hard‚ real way of describing life and love‚ Demeter gives them their faith back and offers them hope in a very intimate and devoted sonnet. The
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Compare and contrast the ways in which Carol Ann Duffy presents female characters in ’The World’s Wife’. The Worlds Wife is a joyous collection of poems about women which was published in 1999‚ which are given a voice in society as the original stories/myths gave women no say. The poems features biblical‚ mythical and historical which are very well known. All the poems are dramatic monologues in a feminist approach. Most poems are seen as witty‚ interesting and hilarious. The main themes shown
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To What Extent Does Duffy Present The Body As A Key Aspect Of Female Identity? Tragic and disconcerted themes are continued throughout poems of Duffys such as ‘The Map Women’‚ ‘The Woman Who Shopped’ and ‘The Diet’; Duffy is trying to aggress to the reader the predicaments with the body being used as a key aspect of female identity in modern society. Fractious subjects like anorexia are used to address how extreme the pressures are to be accepted in society Duffy’s uses ‘The Diet’ alike the
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In both ‘Mrs Aesop’ and ‘Litany’ Duffy presents women at quite different angles. In ‘Mrs Aesop’ Duffy makes reference to women as blunt and constantly critisising‚ a trait that is very unusual for a feminist. Because of her jealousy she makes fun of his masculinity and insults him ‘the sex was diabolical’. Showing a stronger side to Mrs Aesop‚ but also a rather childish one. In Litany‚ the falseness of women’s lives and discussions are outlined. The child’s view on women meeting to look through a
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Explore the ways in which Duffy conveys a difficult relationship in Dream of a Lost Friend Throughout the poem ‘Dream of a Lost Friend’‚ Duffy uses many carefully crafted writing techniques to suggest to the reader a difficult relationship. The relationship in this situation appears to be that between herself and her deceased friend‚ who had AIDS. A sense of regret appears to be omnipresent throughout the poem‚ as well as a slight feeling of guilt. One major theme throughout the poem
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How does Carol Ann Duffy challenge the “familiar cultural stereotypes” of women in ‘Mrs Beast’ ? One construction of feminism in the poem is female dominance over men. The Beast is shown as the weaker of the male culture due to his unappealing image “ugly as sin”. The Beast sees the narrators seeming interest in him as a miracle and is portrayed as desperate to keep her attention even it means living with her neglect. Here we see that the there is a reversal of gender stereotype as the Beast takes
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