All the poems so far in the collection are a cry of rage and frustration. Do you agree with the view and why?
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- All the poems so far in the collection are a cry of rage and frustration. Do you agree with the view and why?
- Disagree
- Loud
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- Tall
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- Woman Who shopped
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- The Map Woman
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- The diet
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- Loud
- Agree
- Loud
- Internal Rhyme is used to connote/ portray pain
- "Swelling" and "Felling"
- Dufffy uses battle/war imagery do get across the rage and frustration
- "fighter planes buzzed" and "the shriek of the bomb, the bang of the gun
- Duffy uses a semantic field of anger and violence
- "Stomped", "shouting", "yelled","bellowing", "screeching"
- Woman voices are not heard
- "News had often made me shout one day her voice ripped out of her throat like a firework"
- Internal Rhyme is used to connote/ portray pain
- Tall
- shown through isolation which is caused by her being famous
- "personal birds sang on her ears" and "she slept outdoors,stretched, across empty fields or sand"
- Shown by the loss of control of fame
- "her clothes would be curtains and eiderdowns, towels and rugs"
- Frustration is shown through what she drinks to get rid of dark thoughts
- "ordered a stiff drink"
- Duffy shows this through the amount of pressure of being famous
- " showering in rain"
- shown through isolation which is caused by her being famous
- The Woman Who Shopped
- Frustration of being trapped by societies views on women
- "went out with a silver shilling"
- The frustration with annihilation and destruction
- "birds shrieked and voided themselves in her stone hair"
- Duffy uses aggressive verbs
- "sky was unwrapping itself, ripping itself into shreds"
- The need to cope with her obsession for shopping
- "Shuffle his plastic with hers"
- Frustration of being trapped by societies views on women
- The diet
- rage is shown through the confrontation with her own body image
- "By the end of week one, she was half a stone shy of ten and shrinking"
- Frustration is presented by her obsession with her becoming slimmer
- " One day the width of a stick, she started to grow smaller- childsized, dollsized, the height of a thimble"
- the anger of her wanting to change back to her old self
- "hearing the avalanche munch of food"
- through the feeling of being lonely/ excluded
- "lay in the tent of a nostril like a germ" and "Started to sing.nobody's love"
- rage is shown through the confrontation with her own body image
- The Map Woman
- The frustration of the need to cover up her skin
- "the map was under her stockings, under her gloves"
- Frustration is shown through the use of similes
- "bodies fading into the earth like old paint"
- "Your tiny face trapped in windows bottle thick like a fly"
- "Sloughed like a snake's"
- "like a rash, like a slow burn"
- the use of sybilance to increase the amount of violence
- "sponged, soaped, scrubbed"
- shown by the use of metaphors
- " A woman's skin was a map of the town"
- The frustration of the need to cover up her skin
- Loud
- Disagree
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