Carol Ann Duffy focuses on her poems with the idea of tough emotions that we find difficult to face. She discusses loneliness, struggles and limits within society. In the poems, Originally, Mrs Darwin, Atlas, Valentine and The Last Post, she discusses ideas that we, usually find difficult to open up about. In Atlas, she talks about isolation from society, something that people often go towards when feeling upset or depressed. This is shown through the passage,
“Hired by no one, heard in myth only, lonely.”
This is something humans do not find pleasure in discussing. She also talks about love, tension and traps. All things that humans could possibly find distaste in. We find these topics difficult to talk about because they are very meaningful …show more content…
She often uses listing in combination with line-breaks which are used to imply depth and secrecy. In Atlas, she uses this combination fairly often, specifically in the first stanza. She continuously lists to emphasise the presence of something, then uses a line-break to ‘hide’ these words from the reader, suggesting the feeling of secrecy.
Carol Ann Duffy often uses repetition in her other writing. We can see her using this in Atlas. This often causes the audience to extend their thinking by maintaining similar ideas within the poem, making it feel like a story of some sort. Duffy used, “Hero,” three times in Atlas to emphasise his heroic action done towards humanity on Earth.
Carol Ann Duffy uses poetry to convey ideas that an ordinary story would never succeed to do. She manipulates several techniques to emphasise the tough emotions suggested form the poem that strike us in negative ways. For example, how Atlas encourages weakness and isolation from society . This further encourages discomfort for the audience, making Duffy the poet she is. “Poetry is the music of being …show more content…
Music is used to change moods, alter motivation, change to way we think. Carol Ann Duffy’s poems also have the same ability as music, how we can gather such different ideas from the same piece of literature. Poems like, Valentine and Atlas have to ability to change the way we think and comprehend actions of both ourselves and others in our society. Valentine can give us an impression of love, how controversial it can be towards certain people. It can alter our way of comprehending emotions and differences of love. This can also represents perspective, which has unequivocal relations to music. Poetry shows us different paths of life, the way that we can function together as a society. Her poem, The Last Post shows us how our dignity and honor can be saved though deeds dubbed honorable. SImilarly with Atlas, she explains how when put in a scenario of punishment, honor and glory can still be taken, even if nobody can acknowledge it. Ideas like this change our way of
“Hired by no one, heard in myth only, lonely.”
This is something humans do not find pleasure in discussing. She also talks about love, tension and traps. All things that humans could possibly find distaste in. We find these topics difficult to talk about because they are very meaningful …show more content…
She often uses listing in combination with line-breaks which are used to imply depth and secrecy. In Atlas, she uses this combination fairly often, specifically in the first stanza. She continuously lists to emphasise the presence of something, then uses a line-break to ‘hide’ these words from the reader, suggesting the feeling of secrecy.
Carol Ann Duffy often uses repetition in her other writing. We can see her using this in Atlas. This often causes the audience to extend their thinking by maintaining similar ideas within the poem, making it feel like a story of some sort. Duffy used, “Hero,” three times in Atlas to emphasise his heroic action done towards humanity on Earth.
Carol Ann Duffy uses poetry to convey ideas that an ordinary story would never succeed to do. She manipulates several techniques to emphasise the tough emotions suggested form the poem that strike us in negative ways. For example, how Atlas encourages weakness and isolation from society . This further encourages discomfort for the audience, making Duffy the poet she is. “Poetry is the music of being …show more content…
Music is used to change moods, alter motivation, change to way we think. Carol Ann Duffy’s poems also have the same ability as music, how we can gather such different ideas from the same piece of literature. Poems like, Valentine and Atlas have to ability to change the way we think and comprehend actions of both ourselves and others in our society. Valentine can give us an impression of love, how controversial it can be towards certain people. It can alter our way of comprehending emotions and differences of love. This can also represents perspective, which has unequivocal relations to music. Poetry shows us different paths of life, the way that we can function together as a society. Her poem, The Last Post shows us how our dignity and honor can be saved though deeds dubbed honorable. SImilarly with Atlas, she explains how when put in a scenario of punishment, honor and glory can still be taken, even if nobody can acknowledge it. Ideas like this change our way of