Education- Carol Ann Duffy
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- Created on: 24-03-20 08:31
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- Education
- Welltread
- Context
- 'Aberfan'- reference to 1966 when mudslide at a colliery spoil heap killed over 100 children
- Recalls social habits of Duffy's childhood
- Structure
- loose lines of iambic hexameter
- No rhyme scheme
- Language
- 'the Head's face was a fist.'
- 'Mr Welltread. Sir'
- 'children ran shrieking in the locked yard'
- 'Well tread looked like a gangster. Welltread stalked...'
- 'Hurt himself more than he hurt me'
- Context
- Like Earning a Living
- Structure
- Syntax becomes increasingly disjointed
- Idiolect of pupils becomes dominant voice
- Free verse
- No structure or solidity to their learning
- Syntax becomes increasingly disjointed
- Language
- 'She dunno.'
- 'Nor does the youth with the face.'
- 'Ambition. Rage. Boredom'
- 'long afternoon empties of air, meaning, energy, point'
- 'Earning a living like.'
- Context
- Duffy would visit schools in East London
- Reference to popular jokes
- Structure
- The Good Teachers
- Structure
- Four stanzas of sestets
- Free verse
- Context
- Likely autobiographical
- Reflects encouragement of teachers
- Language
- 'virtuous women / size you up'
- 'kind intelligent green eye. Cruel blue one'
- 'there's the wall you climb'
- 'long, brown skirts, snobbish and proud'
- 'roll... your skirt over and over'
- Structure
- Welltread
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