relationship of two lovers. In ’Hour’ Duffy uses a metaphor at the start of the poem to allude how love has less power than time. When Duffy announces ’Love’s time’s beggar‚ but even a single hour‚/bright as a dropped coin‚ makes love rich.’ we see a twist of notion‚ like every second is like an hour creating a paradox. Duffy also uses refereces to two fairytales‚ Rumpelstiltskin and King Midas. When Duffy declares ’the Midas light/turning your limbs to gold.’ Duffy portrays a slightly sinister tone
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Discuss the ways in which the poets convey the horrors of war In the two war poems “Dulce Et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen on “War Photographer” by Carol Anna Duffy‚ the writers convey the horrors in different ways. In Dulce Et Decorum Est” Owen writes from the perspective of a tired worn out soldier. In “War Photographer” Duffy writes from the perspective of a man who captured the war. In the poem “Dulce Et Decorum Est” the main mood is dark and depressing. Owen refers to diction that allow
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Alli Beery Warming Her Pearls ENGL 3790 3/31/14 Warming Her Pearls Carol Anne Duffy has always had a strong feminist theme running throughout all of her poems. Warming Her Pearls is a combination of both feminism and Marxism. There is a class conflict when it comes to the maid and her mistress. The maid is constantly thinking of her mistress‚ and it is likely that the mistress never thinks twice about her maid. While there is no relationship between a man and a woman‚ there are strong
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Marr College Standard Grade English Folio: Reading A Critical Evaluation of “Shooting Stars” by Carol Ann Duffy “Shooting Stars‚” by Carol Ann Duffy is a poem that explores the theme of tragedy through the writer’s creation of haunting imagery and tells a story‚ like no other. Using techniques such as imagery‚ enjambment‚ structure and form‚ Duffy invites the reader to contemplate the Jewish victims of the Holocaust in World War II and to warn against the dangers of forgetting
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Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy – Analysis of Poem Summary of the poem… The poem details the inner conflict within a war photographer as he returns home to rural England after an assignment. Throughout the poem the photographer struggles to contain his feelings as the horrors he has witnessed resurface in his everyday life. The purpose of the poem is to demonstrate the suffering and devastation‚ both physically and emotionally‚ caused by war. THEMES In her poem Duffy deals with various themes
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However‚ on the other hand‚ Carol Ann Duffy structures her poem "Quickdraw" in contrast to Armitage by using only four‚ four- lined stanzas. I believe that Duffy uses this technique to write out her poem because she wants to represent the different stages of her semantic field‚ a western shoot- out. This is obvious in the first stanza‚ where it is suggesting the preparation of the shoot- out by saying‚ “I wear the two‚ the mobile and landline phones.” Duffy successfully uses the second stanza to
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strategies and by time‚ companies also developed and implemented some forms of the customer loyalty strategies as stated by Duffy (2005: 284). He also pointed some breakdowns in the past and their solutions in addition to the benefits of loyalty. Tepeci (1999:213)‚ Toh et al. (1993:214)‚ Pritchard and Howard (1997:214)‚ Hunter (1998:214) and Wong et al. (1999:214) agreed with Duffy (1998:435) that approaches need to be conducted in order to structure efficient customer loyalty. And these approaches fall
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The Reformation May 5‚ 2012 Final Paper The Voices of Morebath is a book by Eamon Duffy about the small parish of Morebath in England during the time of the Reformation. His book is a microhistory‚ focusing solely on a very small and specific area in time and space. This book‚ like all microhistories‚ seeks to help the reader understand a larger area of history by showing a great amount of detail about one specific area. It helps the reader come to terms with normal daily life‚ and gives a more
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Duffy‚ writing from the twentieth century perspective‚ revisits the well known character from Great Expectations in a dramatic monologue‚ where she assumes the persona of Havisham to explore the innermost thoughts and feelings of a bitter woman destroyed by unrequited love and humiliation. Havisham appears to be written in the style of a Shakespearean sonnet‚ but does not end in a rhyming couplet‚ only continues in this style. This symbolises that there is no happy ending for Havisham and thoughts
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biblical story which the women are portrayed to be ‘immoral and dangerous’’. Duffy has modernised this story and placed Salome as the narrator‚ whilst also fulfilling the expectations of a feminist text by challenging stereotypical ideas of conventional gender roles. It is interesting‚ however‚ that unlike other poems in the “Worlds Wife” ‘Salome’ has been received negatively as stated by Janet Lewison “Salome by Carol Ann Duffy: the ‘soul-lessness of cliché?”1. It can be argued that it is ‘soulless’
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