Critics Flashcards
Duffy shares Larkin’s _____ views of life… loneliness haunts her _____ - Randolph
Duffy shares Larkin’s tragic views of life… loneliness haunts her verse - Randolph
‘she has an __________ side that Larkin did not” - Randolph
‘She has an optimistic side that Larkin did not’ - Randolph
‘She [Duffy] examines ____ in many forms’ - O’Riordan
‘She [Duffy] examines love in many forms’ - O’Riordan
‘I’m not dealing with ____, I’m dealing with ______’ - Carol Ann Duffy
‘I’m not dealing with fact, I’m dealing with emotion’ - Carol Ann Duffy
‘Duffy is, in many ways, Larkin’s _________’ - Forbes
‘Duffy is, in many ways, Larkin’s antithesis’ - Forbes
‘Exploration of the deepest recesses of human emotion, both _____ and _____’ - O’Riordan
‘Exploration of the deepest recesses of human emotion, both joy and pain’ - O’Riordan
‘Like her _____, Duffy is disarmingly direct, ____ and a little bit fierce’ - Allardice
‘Like her poetry, Duffy is disarmingly direct, warm and a little bit fierce’ - Allardice
‘He writes like something almost being ___… it is a study of ___-___’ - Ricks
‘He writes like something almost being said… it is a study of self-pity’ - Ricks
‘He is an ________ of misanthropy and _______’ - Appleyard
‘He is an advocate of misanthropy and pessimism’ - Appleyard
‘Larkin is a _______ and inflexible ______’ - Appleyard
‘Larkin is a hopeless and inflexible pessimist’ - Appleyard
‘His fear of ________ is harrowing’ - Booth
‘His fear of extinction is harrowing’ - Booth
‘Is pre-eminently a poet of ___________ and ____’ - Punter
‘Is pre-eminently a poet of loneliness and lost’ - Punter
‘His ______ was driven by his failure in both _____ and life’ - Swarbrick
‘His writing was driven by his failure in both writing and life’ - Swarbrick
‘Larkin had no _______’ - Amis
‘Larkin had no emotions’ - Amis
‘In Larkin’s view, in a self-deluded world, ____ is the greatest ______ of them all’ - Golding
‘In Larkin’s view, in a self-deluded world, love is the greatest illusion of them all’ - Golding
‘Blake never tried to fit into the world, simply, _________ and completely he was a _____’ - J Bronowski
‘Blake never tried to fit into the world, simply, innocently and completely he was a rebel’ - J Bronowski
‘_______ is active in children’s oppression because it makes them promises about the afterlife rather then dealing with _______ on Earth’ - Norton
‘Religion is active in children’s oppression because it makes them promises about the afterlife rather than dealing with injustice on Earth’ - Norton
‘Blake was on the side of ___ against authority’ - Evans
‘Blake was on the side of man against authority’ - Evans
‘He believed sex and ______ were _______’ - Wilson
‘He believed sex and religion were inseparable’ - Wilson
‘I must create a ______ or be _______ by another mans’ - Blake
‘I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans’ - Blake
‘Blake had a fundamental ______ for ____ life’ - DW Harding
‘Blake had a fundamental concern for human life’ - DW Harding