Carol Ann Duffy

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    abandon them. In the next line, unlike Shakespeare’s tender tone towards the topic of love, she introduces her bizarre and unusual choice of a romantic symbol through the use of the metaphor, “I give you an onion.” This is an extended metaphor as Duffy elaborates on it throughout the poem. It expresses her view that love is not a just a simple cherishable feeling, but that it has layers like that of an onion. Layers that are hurtful as peeling onions make people tear up which is linked with…

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    Steve McCurry is an award-winning photographer and photojournalist. He is recognised globally for his vivid and compelling colour photography. With experience that spans over three decades, he commands the universal respect that goes beyond photography circles. He has scores of books that are bestsellers and prints that has raised thousands of dollars. He has won several awards throughout his career, which included most reputed ones like Magazine Photographer of the Year awarded by the National…

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    ways to look at war, as pointed out in this quote: “No man ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor man die for his country.” George S. Patton First on the list is the poem “War Photographer,” written by Carol Ann Duffy. She uses a series of literary techniques to put across her views against war and its effects. In the first paragraph, she talks about how the character returns to his “darkroom” where he is “finally alone.” The word “darkroom” may be…

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    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…

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    In the poems, Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy and Let me describe for you her eyes by Glenn Colquhoun, the writers have used many different language techniques to show their thoughts on relationships. In Valentine, Carol Ann Duffy uses metaphors and personification to communicate her ideas about love. She thinks that love isn’t always good and joyful and can be miserable and heart breaking. In Let me describe for you her eyes, Glenn Colquhoun uses metaphors and similes to let the readers know his…

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    In’ War Photographer’, Duffy uses an oxymoronic title to contrast ‘war’ with suffering and death with a ‘photographer’ as life, peace and memories to present life and death. To highlight the contrast, the poem is laid out in four regular six-line stanzas. This rigid structure shows that the job of a photographer is methodological and systematic in the way he sets out the film - “spools of suffering” and “in ordered rows” to restore order on the destruction and bloodshed of “The hundred agonies”…

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    War Photographer is a poem by Carol Ann Duffy. This poem was created for a person she was close friends with, Don McCullin, a famous “war photographer”. She emphasises the idea of the persona she talks about in “War Photographer” as a photographer for a newspaper, who takes his job very seriously, but falters when looking back. She also extend that through the talk about the wars and contrasting it to a casual Sunday in England. The poem begins with a depiction of the war picture taker…

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    Carol Ann Duffy’s poetry combines myths, fairy tales, historic stories, Bible, legends, horrors - the wide range of cultural and family heritage, mythological tradition and autobiographical transaction. She celebrates them all, discovering the truth which hasn’t been completely unveiled. Her poems demonstrate a female mindset, in a way that personally connects her with myths, history, fairy tales. The World’s Wife collection of poems starts with “Little Red Cap” which is about a…

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    ENGLISH ESSAY -THE POEMS IN THE WORLDS WIFE REFLECT DUFFY’S OWN, VERY FEMINIST, VIEWOF THE WORLD- This paper presents Carol Ann Duffy as one of the biggest talents in British poetry, whose poems in the Worlds Wife reflect her very feminist point of view; this aspect helped her to become the first woman appointed poet laureate in Great Britain in 2009. First and foremost, the author´s use of images and literary devices to show man and woman relationships in which she is treated like an object…

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    According to the article, Differentiated Instruction and Implications for UDL Implementation, one of the leading theorists, Carol Ann Tomlinson, defined differentiated instruction as “...a teaching theory based on the premise that the instructional approaches should vary and be adapted in relation to individual and diverse students in the classroom” (Hall, Meyer, Strangman, 2003, p. 2). Additionally, the authors noted, “The model of differentiated instruction requires teachers to be flexible in…

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