Carol Ann Duffy Context
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- Created on: 28-01-20 15:02
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- Carol Ann Duffy Context
- Inspirations
- Robert Browning
- Wrote monologues from the point of disturbed or unusual characters
- John Donne
- Ordinary objects presented in original and surprising ways
- Philip Larkin
- Nostalgia and dry humour
- The Beat poets
- Rejection of standard values and materialism
- Explicit portrayals of the human condition
- Sexual liberation
- Robert Browning
- Poetry
- Known as a feminist poet
- First LGBT+ Poet Laureate
- And the first woman
- Aims for her readers to understand those who they normally dismiss
- Known as a feminist poet
- Writes in accessible language to seem deceptively simple
- Personal Life
- Went to a Catholic school and kept in touch with her English teacher there
- Attended Stafford Girls High
- Raised her daughter Ella without the involvement of the father
- She has said her daughter was one of her greatest achievements
- Her partner is fellow poet Jackie Kay
- Inspirations
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