How Does Duffy Vividly Portray her Mother and their Relationship in “Before You Were Mine”? Firstly‚ there are several examples of Duffy implying a strong relationship of love and admiration between herself and her mother. For instance‚ this is conveyed when Duffy describes her mother’s polka dot dress as blowing around her legs‚ before referring to her as “Marilyn”. This immediately draws the audiences’s minds to the fifties‚ and the iconic image of the glamorous Marilyn Monroe with her polka
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How Does Carol Ann Duffy Convey How Grief Changes Over Time In Mrs Lazarus The poem Mrs Lazarus‚ by Carol Ann Duffy‚ portrays a woman (Mrs Lazarus) going through the stages of grief after her husband passes away. In this essay‚ I will be exploring the ways in which Duffy conveys how grief changes over time. The poem begins with Mrs Lazarus’s state of anguish over her husband’s death. The words “howled‚ shrieked‚ clawed” evoke a sense of rawness in the reader‚ and the image that comes to mind
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Compare the ways in which disturbed characters are presented in Macbeth and a selection of poetry by Carol Ann Duffy/ Pre 1914 poems. In Macbeth‚ Salome‚ Havisham and Stealing‚ there are a variety of ways in which disturbed characters are presented through both language‚ structure and context. In this essay‚ I will convey the various ways in which disturbed characters are shown throughout the written pieces such as violence‚ death and loneliness. The use of imagery helps to convey how the characters
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How important is the theme of childhood/memory in "Mean Time" by Carol Ann Duffy and "The Collected Poems" of Seamus Heaney? In both of these poets collections‚ the theme of memory and childhood is used often and is a recurring theme throughout their poems. Carol Ann Duffy is nostalgic about the younger times from her childhood‚ however from adolescence onwards she is bitter‚ for example in ’Never Go Back’ she writes that the memories "swarm in the room‚ sting you"‚ showing that she has no pride
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Show how Duffy conveys her feelings about a member of her family in ‘Before You Were Mine’ In ‘Before You Were Mine’‚ Carol Ann Duffy uses a large range of poetic techniques to convey her feelings about her mother. The title of the poem contains a possessive pronoun that makes the reader instantly get a sense of possessiveness towards her mother‚ rather than the original thought that a mother would be saying that about her child‚ which shows an inverse on the usual way to use the phrase. The first
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What techniques has Carol Ann Duffy used in her poetry to make old stories and fables relevant to modern audiences? Comment on upon the use of language‚ imagery and structure. ’Mrs. Faust’ is written in the casual‚ contemporary style which suits its setting and adds fittingly to the collection of ’The Worlds Wife’. In this collection most poems explore the feminist principles or the modern state of them. This poem however‚ introduces a new issue to the collection; the materialistic nature of
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With close reference to The Devil’s Wife‚ explore how Duffy presents power and compare this with her presentation of power in other poems In “Dirt”‚ Duffy tells the tale of Myra Hindley who‚ in conjunction with Ian Brady murdered six young children. Written as a dramatic monologue‚ Duffy is able to evoke a sense of empathy in her reader‚ thus enabling them to form a better understanding of the speaker’s situation‚ making the poem all the more effective. The majority of the poems in this collection
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Wife’ is a collection of poems written by Carol Ann Duffy in which the writer takes on the persona of a range of characters; these being real‚ fictional‚ mythical and biblical. The wives in the collection may be of long suffering‚ but they are not victims. Duffy tackles controversial issues and her women are by no means victorious‚ but she shows the women as they are; not the stereotypical feministic view but angry‚ sardonic‚ impatient women. Duffy seeks to highlight the ways in which women were best
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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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Compare your Responses to ‘Kid’ by Simon Armitage with you Responses to one poem Carol Ann Duffy and tow from the pre-1914 Poetry Bank Poets use features of form‚ structure and language to force the reader to respond in different ways to different poems. Different methods of language are used by poets to produce different feelings about a speaker or generate descriptions of certain people. ‘Kid’ by Simon Armitage is a poem focusing on the partnership of Batman and Robin. It is a monologue from
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