Education For Leisure Carol Ann Duffy Analysis

The poem Education for Leisure, from the Standing Female Nude (1985 collection) created by a well-known female, british poet; Carol Ann Duffy. The young induvidual (extracted from the adolecent social group) from the poem has been presented in a way that he or she has assumingly dropped out of school and has nothing to do with their time since education failed to work on them, nor is he or she deemed to be creative (“I dial the radio and tell the man he’s talking to a superstar. He cuts me off…”). The character turns to the gain of negative attention and power to gain the visioned privilege of becoming famous or recognised if you like.

The purpose of the poem is to basically teach it’s audience that simply, if you deny the opportunities offered

Yet, “…another language…” has been refered to in a line of the poem, an older and more creative language just like the bible uses and shakespeare did, which comes back to remind readers that this person is rather naïve in his presentation. A certain type of language is employed to convey Duffy’s messages throughout Education for Leisure such as “Shakespeare. It was in another language…”, we can derive from symblism that this person’s school work was tricky and this line basically means it was like a metaphorical experience of dying for this evil intended, murderous young person. Symbolism of death arises in the readers mind as “…another language…” is read out. Repetition does have quite an effect on the readers as it reveals the message that Duffy desired to pass on, for example the letter “I” (myself), has been repeated twice in each stanza which reveals the poems significance and allows readers to discover the characters boasty and show-off-like personality which degrades the adolecent social group that the character is from and also makes them seem immature which is also evident where the character’s voice seems to also contain hues here and there of an wounded child; “I have had enough of being ignored”. A consitancy of foreshadowing is used throughout Education for Leisure as