Disturbance- Carol Ann Duffy P.1

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  • Disturbance
    • The Cliché Kid
      • Structure
        • Regular 3 line structure
          • Trying to retain memory
        • Monologue
          • Feels confessional
      • Context
        • Societal attitudes towards transgression
        • References to both American and British pop culture
        • Homosexual was considered mental illness
      • Language
        • 'I need help, Doc, and bad'
        • 'my father's ballgown'
        • 'Give me a shot of something
        • 'my imaginary friend left me'
        • 'fresh-baked grass, dammit, the new-mown bread'
    • Stuffed
      • Structure
        • Dramatic monologue
          • Male in control- Robert Browning's 'My Last Duchess'
            • Context
              • Intertextuality with Lewis Carroll's 'The Crocodile'
              • Male domination of women
      • Context
        • Intertextuality with Lewis Carroll's 'The Crocodile'
        • Male domination of women
      • Language
        • 'My motionless, my living doll'
        • 'I put two yellow peepers in an owl'
        • 'I pierce the heartbeat of a quail.'
    • The Suicide
      • Structure
        • no structure  dramatic monologue
      • Context
        • Romanticise suicide
        • Intertextuality with King Lear
      • Language
        • 'Despair / laced with a little glee
        • 'My body is a blank page I will write on.'
        • '**** off. / Worship.'

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