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In her poems Carol Ann Duffy explores many subjects and themes including love, a female’s perspective of well known legend, dream-like poems, other people and poems from her own experience. Some poems with these themes include, ‘Valentine’, ‘Mrs. Midas’, ‘Dream of a Lost Friend’, ‘War Photographer’ and ‘Originally’. Many of Duffy’s poems are in a […]
‘War Photographer’ by Carol Ann Duffy is a poem written about the life of a professional war photographer. It follows him from the battlefields of abroad to his private darkroom in ‘rural England’. As the photographer develops his pictures he is haunted by the wife of a dead man that he photographed dying, and refused […]
The thief in Carol Ann Duffyâs poem âstealingâ talks about the most unusual item he has ever stole â a snowman. The futility of the personaâs ruthless actions is portrayed by Duffy in the poem, which also suggests the causes of this behavior to be a childhood deprived of arts and joy. The ruthlessness of […]
In Carol Ann Duffyâs poems, âSalomeâ and â Havishamâ aggression and violence towards men is an ever-present theme. Each poem is spoken in the narrative voice of the ladies (whom the poems are named after), who throughout express signs of mental instability. Bitterness and hatred towards men is shown, both in words and in actions. […]
A poem which describes a personâs experience is War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy. The poem depicts a photographer who has recently returned from an assignment to a war-ridden country. It emphasises the harshness of war photography through the photographerâs thoughts on his experience abroad. In the first stanza, Duffy conveys the nature of the […]
âWar Photographerâ by Carol Ann Duffy is a poem which explores the theme of moral ambiguity in the field of war photography which is important in today’s society. The poet has conveyed this issue through the eyes and thoughts of a war photographer and highlights the controversy surrounding this profession.In the first stanza the reader […]
The poem, âValentineâ, is a monologue by Carol Ann Duffy addressed to her lover. It is part of the set âMean Timeâ published in 1993. It explores an unorthodox and frank side of love and compares it to the frivolities of Valentines day. The poem is written in free verse and has no rhyme scheme. […]
Old Man, Old Man uses deep images of our view of a stereotypical old man. To show the life of an old man going from the master of many things to a senile old man who can not remember a thing. Warning is a similar poem about an old woman written by Jenny Joseph written […]
‘Sensation involves registering and forming a code for light, sound, etc. Through natural selection, our sensory systems have been designed to develop these for information about objects and events in our environment. The ability to interpret this information, to extract from it meaningful and useful representations of our world is called perception.1’Perception involves a set […]
During Blake’s life, 1757-1827, many important changes in the world were happening. In France, there was the French Revolution and in Britain there was the Industrial Revolution. During these periods, life for poor children was abysmal. Blake had very strong views concerning this and he conveyed this throughout his poetry and his engravings/artwork. Blake wrote […]
The road extended into the distance like a snake disappearing beyond the horizon. The building’s walls were shrouded in darkness cast by the shadows. A delicate sign, painted in pastel colors and bearing the name ‘Candy Box,’ creaked as it swayed on its deteriorated hinges. Though the name seemed innocent, the sun was rapidly setting. […]
Grace Nichols was born and brought up in Georgetown, Guyana. She was moved to London where she still lives. Due to the history of invasions the people from the Caribbean Islands are a mixture of races. Most of the original Caribbean people were killed off by disease brought to the Islands by western explorers. As […]
Both poems ‘Presents from my aunts in Pakistan’ and ‘Hurricane Hits England’, deal with an alien culture and hoe the two poets find it hard to adapt to, to Pakistan in Presents from my aunts, and England in Hurricane hits England. ‘Presents from my aunts’ is about a young Pakistani girl who moved from Pakistan […]
In this essay I will be writing about one of the Grave Nichols poems that I have studied. I will refer to other poems that have the same theme or technique that Grace Nichols uses. I have decided to analyze “Childhood”. Grace Nichols was born in Georgetown, Guyana in 1950. She was educated at St. […]
As per your inquiry about the most accomplished poet among Sheffield College students, I propose Grace Nichols as the primary candidate. Grace Nichols is a celebrated black poet and ex-journalist from Guyana in the Caribbean. She has been practicing as an independent writer since 1977 when she relocated to Britain and holds a prestigious position […]
In this essay I am going to compare the two poems ‘A Woman to Her Lover’ by Christina Walsh, written in the middle of the nineteenth century and ‘To His Coy Mistress’ by Andrew Marvell, from the seventeenth century. Each of the two poems show a different gender perspective and the different views on marriage […]
Poets find consolation in nature through various writing techniques. These include the use of similes, metaphors and imagery. Often, poets use personification in order to give nature, and natural objects human characteristics. Romanticists wrote poems expressing the beauty of nature in order to revolt against the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution took place between the […]
To His Coy Mistress, written by Andrew Marvell in 1681 and The Flea, written by John Donne in 1633 are examples of metaphysical poetry. Both of the poems try to convince their partner to have sex with the poet. The poems are also examples of dramatic lyric poetry because the poet addresses another person and […]
The poems “The Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake and “Charlotte O’ Neil’s Song” by Fiona Farrell are both protest poems with both poets trying to make their objections about matters which have affected them. William Blake was an English pre 20th century English poet. In “The Chimney Sweeper” William Blake protests about the use of […]
The works of William Wordsworth and RS Thomas is very first-rated work. The poems that I will compare about landscape are “A Day in Autumn” and “On Westminster Bridge”. The poems that I will weigh against about people are “Tramp” and “The Solitary Reaper”. I will first illustrate “A Day In Autumn to you” They […]
Within the poetry examined, marriage is perceived diversely by the speakers, often contrasting against prevalent views on relationships during the period. The Victorian era pieces of poetry I will concentrate on are “When We Two Parted,” “How Do I Love Thee,” and “Remember.” My study will cover the language, meaning, form, and structure of poems. […]
During the Victorian era, there was significant transformation as a result of the industrial revolution. Urban areas rapidly expanded, causing an influx of rural residents seeking employment in factories and mills to escape impoverishment in the countryside. The disappearance of the countryside was a fast-paced development that caused writers like John Keats, Gerard Manley Hopkins, […]
