Comparisons in Duffys Poetry Compare Themes across the
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Comparisons in Duffy’s Poetry
Compare Themes across the Volumes Standing Female Nude (1985) Selling Manhattan (1987) The Other Country (1990) Mean Time (1993)
Comparison between Poems • Similarities/Differences • Categories - Theme - Message/Ideas/Purpose - Atmosphere/Tone/Mood - Form/Structure - Techniques/Style
2009 Analyse Duffy’s poetic treatment of the past in Originally, The Captain of the 1964 “Top of the Form” Team and Litany.
2006 “Duffy’s character studies – the affectionate, the gently ironic, the bitingly satirical – always impress with the firmness of the poet’s control of tone. ” Discuss with reference to three or four poems.
“In Carol Ann Duffy’s poetry, language is expressive of estrangement, but also of a constant reaching out into the phenomenal world. ” Discuss three or four poems in light of this statement.
“Carol Ann Duffy’s interest in a reclamation of the self through memory, and her desire to reconstruct that self through a nostalgic recognition of a state, before language, that can never be articulated, or reclaimed, become a temporary escape from the world which she encounters. ” Discuss three or four poems in light of this statement.
Process of Planning & Comparison • STAGE 1: Identify possible poems and select most appropriate
Process of Planning & Comparison • STAGE 2: Consider, holistically, Duffy’s treatment/purpose in relation to the focus of the task
Process of Planning & Comparison • STAGE 3: Pinpoint individual take/slant of each poem – look for nuances in meaning/purpose (this combined with stage 2 creates line of argument)
Process of Planning & Comparison • STAGE 4: Look for major areas of comparison = structural sections of argument (larger techniques/areas of poems – what Duffy does/uses to convey message)
Process of Planning & Comparison • STAGE 5: Narrow down each to consider specific use in individual poems (Key quotations/textual reference & areas of comparison/difference)
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- Modifier
- Planned comparisons
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- Ejemplos de comparisons
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