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’
Critic Croft
‘unlike Larkin, [Duffy] approaches her subject personally and up close’
Duffy is not ‘furtive and ashamed but open and frank, often graphically so.’
Critic Croft
‘Duffy often goes back in time, through memory, to recall former loves, or childhood,’
