Carol Ann Duffy Essays

“Originally” is a poem written by Carol Ann Duffy that was published in 1990 and takes reference to a context of Duffy’s own childhood experience of moving from Glasgow, Scotland to England at the age of six. In a literal sense, the persona describes her experience of moving from her “own country” to an unfamiliar place, her inability to adapt to the new environment and at the end reveals her inner hesitation of her true identity. Throughout this poem, Duffy tries to convey the message that one’s

Valentine- Carol Ann Duffy The poem “Valentine” is about a rather unusual present, an onion. Carol Ann explains why the onion is a greater symbol of love than the clichéd valentine day presents, like roses or chocolates. Throughout the poem we see how an onion becomes a metaphor for love, which is unusual because the onion is a very unflattering, stinky, and not a very romantic object. The poem itself seems to be an extended metaphor about how the onion fits in all the romantic properties of love

Leisure? In both monologues (Education for Leisure and Stealing) Duffy uses a wide variety of literary to demonstrate how difficult and problematic life was in the 1980s. Both poems are written from the view of a young adult who finds pleasure in criminality and law breaking due to tediousness, isolation and selfishness. Both personas are presented as uneducated and ignored people who seek attention by committing rebellious actions. Duffy presents the persona as an isolated character who is tired of

How has Carol Ann Duffy used juxtaposition and to what effect to create a specific tone? The poem ‘Valentine’ written by Carol Ann Duffy was written in a way that shows the constant contradictions between the aspects of love. Throughout the poem, the duality of love is compared to show both the negative and positive aspects of love. This has been done as the poet has been blunt and not hidden the bad or dangerous side but instead has contrasted the clichéd ideas of romance and love by highlighting

The poems Education for Leisure and Stealing were both written by the poet Carol Ann Duffy during the time period when crime and unemployment rates were high. In ‘Education for Leisure’ Duffy portrays the persona as a figure who is hungry for power, neglected from society and is not appreciated for his work. On the other hand in ‘Stealing’ the persona is presented as a person with an unstable mind state and feels that he is capable to do anything and steels things to prove he is powerful. Firstly

‘Wish’ by Carol Ann Duffy is about wishing to resurrect a body. It presents death in rewind and undoes all the suffering that has to do with death. ‘Wish’ is a very personal poem compared to the other poems Carol Ann Duffy had written. However, although it is quite personal, it is also a mixture of being personal and connecting with the public, since it relates to the themes of mistreated women from earlier in her collection of poems. The ‘wish’ in this poem is to undo every suffering; to resurrect

Carol Ann Duffy in her poem Originally explores the themes of growing up, loneliness and isolation through her use of mood, imagery and contrast. To pin down to a central theme, loss of identity can be observed. As the title suggests, the poet tries to discover her originality or identity by exploring the factors which affect it. Identity can not only be shaped and defined by the environment but also can be affected by the dialect and culture. Duffy chose to write the poem in the first person, which

HAVISHAM -MIHIR SHAH Throughout her poems carol ann duffy gives a voice to women who have previously been historically ignored. She addresses stereotypes aggressively and also celebrates female sexuality through her poems. She portrays characters that both support and reject the stereotypical representation of women in the male dominated society of the 1900s, by contrasting innocent, helpless, naive women to unexpected dominant, confident and powerful female figures. ‘Havisham’

In the poem Valentine, poet Carol Ann Duffy explores the ‘true’ concept of love extremely eloquently and unusually, through the use of powerful and thought provoking imagery and language techniques. The form, in which Duffy effusively depicts an onion to the concept of love, is done through the use of convincing metaphors, similes, alliteration, and other language techniques, which make the reader, both empathize and envy the emotion Duffy describes. Carol Ann Duffy uses alliteration, negative

The World 's Wife The world 's wife by a Scottish Poet Carol Ann Duffy is a set of the poems that was published in 1999. In her Collection, Duffy usually tries to focus on the gender issues between man and woman and men 's violation against women. Carol Ann Duffy uses the dramatic monologue to show the female perspective in the famous historical stories. Duffy wants to represent a woman voices in these stories by rewriting them. Throughout the history women was considered a passive secondary character

Through symbolism, Duffy demonstrates how texting should not be a replacement for human interactions because it is not the same. In the poem “Text” by Carol Ann Duffey she explores how technology can impede regular human interaction. She describes her having a relationship but not interacting with the person in real life. She writes in a way that shows the perspective of someone texting and receiving texts which creates an interesting perspective on the idea that technology is bad for relationships

and are hidden from the public eye. The three poems by Carol Ann Duffy all incorporate different techniques to convey the main messages and themes of power and corruption, betrayal and forgiveness, and reality vs. imagination. The intended audience for these poems is not necessarily specified, as the purpose of all three poems is for all of society to be exposed to the truth about the motivations of these characters within our communities. Duffy effectively portrays these problems through the poems

Carol Ann Duffy is a renowned poet who has recently turned her attention to the plight of those who struggle to deal with the aftermath of horrific events experienced when at war. Her most recent poem focuses on a war photographer who returns home to the tranquillity of rural England after months in a war zone. Duffy’s inspiration to write this poem was through her friendship with a war photographer. The poem details the inner conflict experienced by the photographer and his all too real struggle

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…”)

Money Talks by Carol Ann Duffy This is a commentary on the poem ‘Money Talks’ by carol Ann Duffy. ‘Money talks’ is the 2nd edition of the collection “Selling Manhattan” released in 1987. In this poem, the character ‘money’ is presented and the audience perceives the poem from money’s point of view. Duffy does this to highlight to the audience what the situation would be like if indeed money had a voice. The author does not give money a specific gender in order to generalize the message and link

Narcissus Forced to Face a Brutal Reality Was there ever a moment in your childhood when your dreams were shattered and you were forced to come to terms with a harsh reality of the world? In “Narcissus and Echo,” a section of Ovid's epic poem, Metamorphosis, Ovid details a particularly brutal coming-of-age narrative: that of Narcissus. Narcissus is a gorgeous-looking adolescent who attracts the love of men and women alike, but the love of all of his suitors is unrequited because Narcissus turns

feels inundates her. Confusion is shown in ‘Who’s for The Game’ and ‘The Right Word’ whereas in ‘Catrin’ the conflict of bonds and ties is present. To begin with, the poem ‘War Photographer’, written by Carol Ann Duffy show us the brutality of war and the indifference of those who live in comfort. Duffy emphasises the fact that we live in a vastly different world to those in the war and how this affects our attitude towards war and suffering. Similarly, the photographer feels the conflict of guilt because

Dawn Fraser was born on the 4th of September 1937. Dawn grew up in Balmain, Sydney with her parents and her 7 siblings. In 1954, the Melbourne Olympics at the age of 19 years old Dawn Fraser swam in her first Olympics and from there dawn recalls to make an Olympic career. Dawn won gold in all Olympic Games (1956, 1960, 1956). Dawn Fraser makes a good person to write about because she have accomplished so much in her life time and is a well-known Australian. Dawn Fraser is an amazing person and inspires

people hardly focus on is the way a person grows emotionally or psychologically in a relationship. Personal growth is essential as ever relationship comes with a lesson to be learnt. The prescribed texts that I will be analysing are Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Rapture displays the progression of a relationship starting with “You”, emphasizing the infatuation that the poet feels with the object of her affection, and ending with “Over” which is a celebration

We remember your childhood well How could the text be read and interpreted differently by two different readers? In literature, there isn’t any literary piece that is interpreted exactly identically by different readers. The interpretation usually is based on the context of in what way the reader reads the poem (literature piece). Readers usually base their interpretation of the poem depending on the message of the poem that is related to the context that they are reading the poem. This text can