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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Shooting Stars By Carol Ann Duffy‚ a critical response. This shows an example of Analysis‚ Evaluation‚ Structure and Expression Date: 29/06/2012 Author Information Uploaded by: Karen Uploaded on: 29/06/2012 Subject: English "Shooting stars" by Carol Anne Duffy is a disturbing and tragically intriguing poem. In the poem‚ Duffy creates a picture of a heroic figure enduring life within a concentration camp‚ in the form of the narrator. This admirable figure tugs at the heart strings of the
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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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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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In this poem Duffy writes about a woman going to extreme lengths to be thin‚ which to many readers can be an uncomfortable thing to read about. However the feeling of uncomfortableness doesn’t stop there; Duffy uses intense imagary of the woman in question. "Her skeleton preened under its tight flesh dress." By using the words "skeleton" and "flesh" in describing this woman it can create a feeling of unease for readers as these words are usually associated with dead bodies. Duffy may have done this
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executive and chairman‚ lost their jobs as a result of events that led up to the crisis. Prior to this‚ junior trader Dennis Gentilin had been aware that his boss‚ Duffy‚ was altering transaction records. Gentilin reported Duffy’s unethical practices to Duffy’s boss‚ Gary Dillon‚ expecting the issue to be resolved. A day later‚ Duffy arranged a private meeting with Gentilin and told him‚ “[i]f you want to stay in the team‚ I demand loyalty and don’t want you going to Dillon about what’s happening
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War Photographer Carol Ann Duffy brings to light the tribulations of those afflicted by war. She delineates this agony through the use of emotive lexis‚ when the photographer thinks about the throes of those he photographed‚ and he sees “running children in a nightmare heat.” This is the photographer remembering children who have been hit with napalm‚ and have no chance of surviving. Literally‚ the use of the word “heat” refers to the napalm used on the children‚ and how much suffering and agony
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his loneliness‚ Mr Duffy realizes that he has put all of this upon himself from his constant lack of control‚ his constant routine‚ and the comfort of being alone. In James Joyces short story of ’A Painful Case’‚ Joyce uses a very unique protagonist. “He had neither companions nor friends‚ church nor creed. He lived his spiritual life without any communion with others‚ visiting his relatives at Christmas and escorting them to the cemetery when they died...” (Joyce 63). Mr Duffy is a man that is very
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Duffy has successfully written about childhood and the loss of innocence in ‘little red cap’‚ discuss with detail reference to the poem and how Duffy has used imagery‚ syntax and structure effectively in the poem. Little Red Cap is written by Carol Ann Duffy and it is taken from her feminist collection ‘The World’s Wife ‘. Carol Ann Duffy creates a voice for the unspoken‚ oppressed women‚ for this reason it has been considered ‘her most feminist work.’ ‘The World’s Wife’ explores the thoughts
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I (Michael Duffy‚ 2009). It was this battle that would mark Germany’s last attempt of turning the tables of the war in their favor‚ though it was destined to lead to their ultimate downfall (Michael Duffy‚ 2009). It would begin on July 15th‚ 1918 and continue until August 5th of the same year; bringing about a plan devised by German Chief of Staff‚ Erich Lundendorff‚ in an effort to attack the allied forces in Flanders by means of luring them into the Marne from Belgium (Michael Duffy‚ 2009). It
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