carol ann duffy help! AGAIN! GRRRR I HATE HER

OP

oh come on, i know most of you have read it you evil bunch :frown:

Reply 2

cpj1987

15

Yeah, but nobody's here to do your work for you.

Reply 3

stephhhh

8

i hate carol ann duffy.
with a massive passion.
her poems are crap. end of story

Reply 4

OP

cpj1987

Yeah, but nobody's here to do your work for you.

and when did i say you were? i asked for opinions not essays!, if you don't want to help don't post irrelevant comments

Reply 5

OP

stephhhh

i hate carol ann duffy.
with a massive passion.
her poems are crap. end of story

so true! why do we even have do her silly poems theres so many nice poems out there...

Reply 6

ZoeH

Mrs. Aesop. Mrs. Midas. Most of 'The World's Wife'.

Reply 7

depends on the poem , many use comedy to highlight more serious issues. Anne hatherways not sad (you made me dislodge 3 big piles of books on the floor to find my world's wife for this!!) It's more celebratory of the love they shared. The second best bed would have been anne h and wills love bed as guests were in the best bed. lots of sexual imagery 'verb dancing in the centre of a noun.' I think she's rembering fondly the love they shared.

Reply 8

stephhhh

i hate carol ann duffy.
with a massive passion.
her poems are crap. end of story

Agree big time.

Reply 9

OP

.Ed.

depends on the poem , many use comedy to highlight more serious issues. Anne hatherways not sad (you made me dislodge 3 big piles of books on the floor to find my world's wife for this!!) It's more celebratory of the love they shared. The second best bed would have been anne h and wills love bed as guests were in the best bed. lots of sexual imagery 'verb dancing in the centre of a noun.' I think she's rembering fondly the love they shared.

thanks your a star! the verb dancing, sexual imagery? how?

Reply 10

halátnost

GoD, LiL MiSs cHeEkY yOu'Re So ChEeKy!!!!!!

i think you might need to elaborate a bit on just 'sad'. Have a google or something. or just try and look at key words and think of the connotations that go with them. I do have that book, i actually quite liked it and think she's a good poet although she does go on about lippy on pillows and that sort of stuff a bit much, so i can see why maybe she annoys you. nothing is very good to study tbh, a lot of life gets drained out of books when it's tried to be injected into syllabi.

anyway, you don't need to ask on here. have a bit more faith in yourself. what do u need it for?

Reply 11

LiL MiSs cHeEkY

thanks your a star! the verb dancing, sexual imagery? how?

It's never been all that clear to me but, verb as the male , inside the noun female.. male genitalia inside female genitalia...

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OP

.Ed.

It's never been all that clear to me but, verb as the male , inside the noun female.. male genitalia inside female genitalia...

hmm disturbing way to look at it. thanks for your help! xxx

Reply 13

OP

halátnost

GoD, LiL MiSs cHeEkY yOu'Re So ChEeKy!!!!!!

:p:

essay im doing, i have wrote 2 pages but didn't seem enough so was just getting other ideas to add in.

Reply 14

just rememberd for good duffy notes. Go to teachit the english teachers website , find your way to a level poetry and you can print off notes on key poems.

http://www.teachit.co.uk/index.asp?CurrMenu=154&T=520

Reply 15

Sabzi

7

^ yep, it'll be perfect for the OP. It makes teaching and learning for AS so easy! What would we do without the internet eh..

Carol Ann Duffy rox my sox. I'm not exactly an expert but I've always liked her more mature poems. So what if she's a feminist lesbian?!

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OP

awww thanks darling! you're a life saver

Reply 17

M.A.H

17

from what i can remember my teacher telling me from them boring english lessons, anne hathaway was celebrating their love, she uses all them words like forests, clifftops and diving for pearls like they were inventive in their love making just like shakespeare was in his writing. She uses these erotic imagery to make the reader see the poem in a sexual sense.

I vaguely remember something about the guests dribbling how they are not having such a romantic or erotic encounter when shakespeare and anna are at it liek rabbits.

so its comical sorta, since its mocking the readers expectations when they said 2nd best bed making us think negative thoughts or something when in fact they are having the time of their lives.

thats all i can remember about that poem

Reply 18

collegedropout

.Ed.

just rememberd for good duffy notes. Go to teachit the english teachers website , find your way to a level poetry and you can print off notes on key poems.

http://www.teachit.co.uk/index.asp?CurrMenu=154&T=520

i found where you mean, but it says you need membership which im assuming you have to buy. or maybe its just my computer. can anyone copy & paste it onto here? these notes would be really helpful!

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