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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Both Duffy and Plath portray many similar themes in their poetry; the theme of family relationships is illustrated in the poems ’Brothers’ and ’Before you were mine’ by Duffy and in ’Daddy’ and ’Medusa’ by Plath. All four poems portray a speaker looking back over relationships within their family members‚ however the context varies; in ’Daddy’‚ it is implied that a relationship between a father and a young girl has been cut short by death‚ resulting in a psychological battle between the speaker and
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The poem In Mrs. Tilscher’s Class’ written by Carol Ann Duffy‚ is written in free verses and includes four stanzas. The poem illustrates the perspective of a carefree‚ innocent and happy young girl going through the first stages of life‚ primary to high school. The poem examines the rites of passage and the change that is taken place between childhood and adolescence. This essay will outline the areas in which Duffy uses different literary terms to define the theme of growing up. The first two
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How do the Poets James Fenton and Carol Ann Duffy Present the Pain of Love in their Poems ‘In Paris with You’ and ‘Quickdraw’? James Fenton and Carol Ann Duffy are both contemporary poets. Their poems ‘In Paris with You’ and ‘Quickdraw’ both include the themes of the pain of love. This essay compares how the two poets present the pain of love in their poems‚ exploring things such as imagery‚ vocabulary and form and structure. One way in which the poets present their ideas about the pain of love
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Response to War Photographer War Photographer is a poem by Carol Ann Duffy‚ published in a book called Standing Female Nude in 1985. The purpose is to shock people out of their complacency of war. Duffy has a view the war is filled with pain and that people in peaceful society can’t really understand the full impact of war. The audience is whoever is interested in poetry. These days the audience for poetry is limited. Duffy is friends with two noted war photographers‚ and they inspired her to write
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in Dublin during the time. Two stories that seem to express these ideas are “A Painful Case” and “Clay.” “A Painful Case” tells the story of a lonesome‚ middle-aged man‚ Mr. Duffy. When it comes to describing Mr. Duffy’s life Joyce is anything but ambiguous‚ for there is not much to be ambiguous about. Mr. Duffy is very simple. His apartment is relatively plain. He eats at the same eating-house everyday at four o’clock. He doesn’t have friends‚ nor does he have family. He “abhorred anything
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on an interesting new twist. The missing “Miss” has an intriguing effects. First‚ it takes Miss Havisham’s gender out of the picture. When we read the title‚ we can’t be sure this is the Havisham we’re familiar with. Second‚ by leaving out “Miss”‚ Duffy is drawing attention to the fact that Havisham is her maiden name. She hasn’t taken on her husband’s name because she never actually married a man. Throughout out a poem‚
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A poem which appears to be about an ordinary everyday experience but which actually makes a deeper comment about life is “Mrs Tilscher’s Class” by Carol Ann Duffy. This poem shows the stages of emotional realisation as a child gradually enters adolescence. The focus of my essay will be to explain the techniques the writer has used to convey the image of a child growing up. I shall start this essay by stating some of the imagery used to elucidate the comparisons to everyday life and growing
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females to be treated as “equals” to their male counterparts. Carol Ann Duffy has created a wide range of books
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