Memory and Nostalgia- Duffy P.1
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- Memory and Nostalgia
- Nostalgia
- Structure
- Last stanza is 10 lines instead of 9
- Experience has changed persona's life
- Sense of things being different
- Last stanza is 10 lines instead of 9
- Context
- Reflect pain of soldiers
- Naivety of society
- Language
- 'wrong taste..wrong sounds.. wrong smells
- 'They pined, wept, grown men'
- 'The music of home-the sad pipes'
- 'It was killing them. It was given a name.'
- Structure
- Beachcomber
- Structure
- No stanza structure
- Fluidity of memories: come and go
- Alternating monometric and diametric lines in stanza 2
- Reminiscent of waves on a beach
- No stanza structure
- Context
- Duffy sympathising with the displaced
- Issues of age are often overlooked or ignored
- Untitled
- Duffy sympathising with the displaced
- Language
- 'That chair'
- 'If you think till it hurts'
- 'the sound of the sea'
- 'Don't move. / Trow.'
- 'This is as close as you get.'
- 'Or the spade / or the sand / or the seashell on the shore'
- Structure
- Never Go Back
- Structure
- 3 sections, each of two octaves
- Sections divide memories of relationships into stages or images
- 3 sections, each of two octaves
- Context
- Decay and pain of relationships
- Relationship with Adrian Henri
- Decay and pain of relationships
- Language
- 'a tired wind whistles'
- 'suddenly swarm in the room, sting you'
- 'window myopic with rain.'
- 'shaking plaster confetti from your hair.'
- Structure
- Nostalgia
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