What To Put In Your Answer Flashcards
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Hour.
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- Contrast between traditional territories of love, e.g. “Flowers/Wine” being replaced with alternatives such as “a grass ditch” emphasising how they think live should be celebrated in nature, being out and about, not being artificial. Also shows how traditional ideas are unimportant compared to personal experience of the two characters.
- Battle of love versus time”. “Time hates love”.
- Duffy alludes to fairytales, Midas and Rumpelstiltskin. Reference adds a magical feel to the closing lines. Image that sums up what they think of love : love an find riches in anything “straw”or even “a grass ditch”. However also implies a darker side about the nature of these feelings of love, suggesting that love is nothing more than a myth or a fairytale - or that the hour can’t last.
- Frequent references to light in contrast to the night/darkness of inevitable separation. Duffy uses light to suggest a positive/warm/optimistic liaison, rather than dwelling on darkness of separation the lovers make the most of their time together and are optimistic about further shown my light - light at the end of the tunnel.
- “Now” is framed by caesura (deliberately used punctuation in the middle of a sentence), which is simple, like the lovers’ situation - strong sense of being complete, nothing more is needed. Celebrates a moment, rather than dwelling on the future or the past, celebrating that “hour” mentioned in the title.
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In Paris with You.
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-Contrast in language and the message of the poem. Uses emphatic negative language, such as, “Don’t talk to me of love”, speaker has “had an earful” - wants to stop thinking about love
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QuickDraw.
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-Imagery associated with western (cowboy) films - western lexis, as title suggests. “Gunslingers” - term in western - describes those who fight with guns, often shooting form the hip. Poem starts by replacing weapons with mobile phones. “Like guns, slung from the pockets on my hips.” Duffy makes a humorous comment on hoax relationships can
