Carol Ann Duffy Flashcards

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What is the form and structure of havisham

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4 stanzas, unrhymed

Lack of rhyme and presence of enhancement give havisham a broken stilted voice

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Choose 4 important quotes from Havisham

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Dark green pebbles for eyes

Spinster. I stink and remember

till I suddenly bite awake

Don’t think it’s only the heart that b-b-breaks

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Form and structure of Anne Hathaway

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Sonnet - 14 line
Volta - split in half
Use of assonance
Much softer

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4 important Anne Hathaway quotes

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I hold him in the casket of my widows head as he held me upon that next best bed

My body now a softer rhyme

The bed a page beneath his writers hands

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Form and structure of Originally

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3 stanzas of 8 lines

Lack of rhyme

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Important Originally quotes

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I stared at the eyes of a blind toy, holding its paw

All childhood is an emigration

My parents anxiety stirring like a loose tooth

I rember my tongue shedding it’s skin like a snake

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Form and structure of valentine

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Irregular stanzas

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Important quotes

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Not a red rose or a satin heart
I give you an onion

It will blind you with tears/ like a lover

Lethal.
It’s scent will cling to you fingers,
cling to your knife

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War photographer structure

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4 stanzas, 6 lines each

Each stanza ends with a rhyme

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Important quotes from war photographer

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spools of suffering

Solutions slop in trays beneath his hands which did not tremble then though seem to now

Blood stained into foreign dust

A hundred agonies in black-and-white

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Form and structure of Mrs Midas

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11 stanzas

Irregular length to show how unpredictable life is

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Important Mrs Midas quotes

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He was standing under the pear tree snapping a twig

Spitting out the teeth of the rich

Look, we all have wishes; granted. but who has wishes granted?

He sat in the back.

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