Disgrace

Question 1

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Answer 1

Link to Home is So Sad
Both poems use a domestic setting in order to comment on human relationships.
Everyday items feature in both poems and are used symbolically to show failed relationships.
Isolation and lonliness are common themes to perhaps critique the period they are set in.

Question 2

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Answer 2

‘She writes in everday, conversational language, making her poems seem deceptively simple’
‘spoken in the voices of Urban disaffected, people on the margins of society who harbour resentments and grudges against the world’