Luffy Critics Flashcards
1
Q
Naremore
A
Larkin “presents himself as a less sceptical, less deceived, observer of contemporary life”
2
Q
Motion (death)
A
“death, in Larkin’s view, is an utterly comfortless blank”
3
Q
Motion (humans)
A
Larkin explores the “struggle between time and human tenderness”
4
Q
Quinn
A
“Many of Duffy’s poems echo themes of Larkin’s”
5
Q
O’Reilly
A
Duffy explores the “deepest recession of human emotion”
6
Q
Duffy
A
“Poetry and prayer are very similar”
7
Q
Appleyard
A
Larkin is “a hopeless and inflexible pessimist”
8
Q
DiMarco
A
Duffy is a “post-post war” poet
9
Q
Swarbrick
A
Larkin “makes us aware of the interpretation of fantasy and reality”
10
Q
Duffy (childhood)
A
she describes childhood as an “emigration”
