Identity and Language- Duffy P.2

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  • Identity and Language
    • Prayer
      • Structure
        • Regular 4 line structure
          • Soothing familiarity and identity
        • Couplet at the end
          • Give romantic feel
      • Context
        • Duffy brought up as Roman Catholic
        • No longer as religious
      • Language
        • 'Although we cannot pray, a prayer utters itself.'
        • 'Someone calls a child's name as though they named their loss.'
        • 'The radio's prayer- Rockall. Malin. Dogger. Finisterre'.
        • 'Hearing his youth in the distant Latin chanting of a train
      • Identity
        • 'The radio's prayer- Rockall. Malin. Dogger. Finisterre'.
        • 'Grade I piano scales console the lodger.'
        • 'Hearing his youth in the distant Latin chanting of a train
        • 'That small familiar pain'
    • Never Go Back
      • Structure
        • Regular 8 line
          • Leaving relationship didn't impact identity
        • Caesurae
          • Hesitance of language
      • Context
        • Duffy experienced break ups in long term relationships
          • Reflection of the emotions
      • Identity
        • 'You shouldn't be here.'
        • 'Fire and lights come on wherever you live.'
        • 'Wipe... the glass for a drenched whore to stare you full in the face.'
      • Language
        • 'All the lies told here... suddenly swarm into the room, sting you.'
        • 'In a cracked voice, there is nothing to say.'
        • 'A tired wind whistles
    • Adultery
      • Structure
        • Regular 4 line structure
          • Leaving relationships didn't impact identity
      • Context
        • Trying to stop cheating look ****
      • Language
        • 'Language unpeels to a lost cry.'
        • '****... That was the wrong verb. This is only an abstract noun.'
        • 'Your own words commuting to bile in your mouth.'
      • Identity
        • 'Tarnished spoon of your body'
        • 'You are naked under your clothes all day'.
        • 'Paranoia for lunch.'

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