Duffy & Larkin AO5 Flashcards
Critic Cotton - disapproval of the masses
Larkin’s poetry embodies a ‘disapproval of the masses’
WORK (Larkin - Letters to Monica)
‘Seven sodding days a week I slave at filthy WORK’
Larkin’s view of parents
Parents ‘fuck you up’
Larkin’s view of children
‘don’t have any kids yourself’
Duffy - Poetry and prayer
‘Poetry and prayer are very similar.’
Isolation (Larkin - letters to Monica)
‘I have a sense of melancholy isolation.’
Critic Matthews - Mass production & consumerism
Mass production and consumerism were ‘merely topics of distain’ for Larkin.
Larkin’s mum on marrying
Marriage ‘kills the heart’
Critic Langley - burdens of human existence
Larkin’s life was a ‘constant battle with the burdens of human existence’
Duffy - poetry in everyday life
‘You can find poetry in your everyday life’
Duffy - demotic, everyday language
Duffy uses demotic, everyday language
Critic Allen-Randolph - tragedy of life
‘Duffy shares Larkin’s tragic views of life’
Critic Quinn - many of Duffy’s themes ‘echo’ those of Larkin’s
Justin Quinn claims many of Duffy’s themes ‘echo’ those of Larkin’s
Critic Allen-Randolph - Duffy & loneliness
‘Loneliness haunts [Duffy’s] verse’
Critic Riley
‘Duffy incorporates humour with insights of social commentary’
