‘Homecoming’ by Bruce Dawe‚ is a protest poem written in free verse‚ which portrays the futility of war in a confronting tone. This poem represents the author’s negative view towards Australia’s involvement in the dehumanizing event. Bruce Dawe creates meaning through the use of language techniques‚ which metaphorically allow him to speak on behalf of the mute‚ dead soldiers. The title ‘Homecoming’ is used to contrast the traditional association of the word‚ with the shocking reality of war. In
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Human Interest is a poem revealing how love can drive people to murderous levels. Written by Carol Ann Duffy‚ this poem displays the treatment of women with a modern‚ chilling storyline. The use of Iambic Pentameter adds a rhythmical‚ fluctuating quality to the poem. This is also present in William Shakespeare’s‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ however the way Shakespeare executs this is to portray the love shown. Whereas in Duffy’s poem‚ iambic pentameter is used to create an ‘on edge’ feeling. It also can be
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Heaney is a poet who’s work focus’ on nature quite a lot. This is influenced by his heritage and nationality. Heaney was born in 1939 in County Derry‚ Northern Ireland. His first collection of poetry‚ Death Of A Naturalist‚ was published in 1966. He has since won numerous awards‚ including The Whitbread Prize for The Haw Lantern‚ and in 1995 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He has worked as a lecturer at many universities including Harvard and Oxford. (Heaney‚ S. New Selected Poems 1966 – 1987
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the poem satirises the way some women drift into a corrupt ‘lifestyle’. Mrs Faust is the first woman in the anthology to be presented as ‘just as bad’ as her male counterpart‚ later echoed in ‘The Devil’s Wife’. These more complex characters allow Duffy to address her concern in showing women as a varied and complete group. ‘Mrs Faust’ is split into fifteen stanzas‚ each consisting of nine short lines. The style of the poem is a dramatic monologue and the tone is set as informal from ‘first things
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but certainly no way to run a business - especially one that ’s growing as quickly as Starbucks that is trying to make inroads around the globe. "With over 2‚000 stores‚ you can ’t have 2‚000 people running with coffee in their trunks‚" says Tim Duffy‚ director of supply chain systems and support for Starbucks. The specialty coffee supplier plans to have 2‚000 retail locations up and running by year 2000‚ up from 1‚400 today. To make sure none of these locations is beholden to a distribution system
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say that this can be shown in the works of Andre Aciman in False Papers (Square Lamartine) by and Carol Ann Duffy in Nostalgia. Both authors show attitudes and feelings of nostalgia but have incorporated these feelings in different perspectives and attitudes of what nostalgia is. The question that will be discussed in this presentation are: how do both authors Andre Aciman and Carol Ann Duffy in Nostalgia and Square Lamartine use literary devices to portray their feeling of nostalgic feeling? Andre
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Carol Ann Duffy’s Valentine. On Valentine’s day‚ many people will neatly prepare the present such as a red rose‚ a cute card‚ or something that extremely beautiful and worthwhile for their beloved couples but Carol Ann Duffy thinks that these presents are predictable. Carol Ann Duffy says that she will give an onion to whom she loves. Why onion? It is because an onion represents both sides of love. Love has many layers like an onion. You may waste your time for many people who are not the right one
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intensity of the relationship. ’High noon’ and ’calamity’ implant the image of a standoff in the wild west. This image of the standoff is inferred to be comparable to the relationship through the painful arguing that the once desire has turned into. Duffy references ’hard liquor’ to suggest that the relationship is reckless and has turned into something that is unhealthy also that if love goes wrong it can bring difficulties along with it. ’Manhunt’ is made up of a series of cuplets. The form of the
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military history‚ it prevented the crossing at certain points on its front‚ while on either flank the Germans who had gained a footing pressed forward (Duffy‚ 2009). Our men‚ firing in three sections‚ met the German attacks with counter-attacks at critical points and succeeded in throwing two German divisions into complete confusion‚ capturing 600 (Duffy‚ 2009). This last quote summarizes American military involvement in World War I. In the "soup of death" that France had become‚ no secret weapon‚ technological
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References: Bull‚ S. (2002). World War 1 Trench Warfare. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. Duffy‚ M. (2009‚ August 22). Life in the Trenches. Retrieved February 4‚ 2012‚ from First World War : http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/trenchlife.htm Greenwood‚ P. (1998). The Second Battle of the Marne. Airlife Publishing Ltd. Pershing‚ J. J. (1989)
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