LT1 - Duffy Pugh comparison - social and political issues
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- Created on: 03-05-15 12:23
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- Political and social issues
- Duffy 1. A HEALTHY MEAL
- Third person narrator... interesting as narration is 1st person belief/ opinion
- Carol ann duffy is a strong minded vegan/veggie. Reflects her own opinions of meat eating
- Sarcasm/ mocking/ scathing tone: "calf to veal in four attempts" (to cover up what we eat) ie calf call cell vell veal.
- Carol ann duffy is a strong minded vegan/veggie. Reflects her own opinions of meat eating
- Internal rhyme,free verse.
- Characterisation : man " a fat man...sweat" woman: "chewing suckling pig..."
- onomatopoeia "belch", listing
- Ends with idiom, slogan to remind readers that they are animals/ savage for consuming creatures.
- onomatopoeia "belch", listing
- Satire on habit of eating meat... increasingly controversial
- Animal welfare movement concerning veal (1980's) after photos of calves tethered in crates unable to move
- Duffy expresses her disgust @ the gluttony through poem SIBILANCE swiSH, oxtailS languiSH diSH
- Animal welfare movement concerning veal (1980's) after photos of calves tethered in crates unable to move
- Third person narrator... interesting as narration is 1st person belief/ opinion
- Pugh 1. BIOLOGY 3
- Addresses the issue of how humans have exploited resources (including animals)
- "seals have fur and big eyes and therefore count as a resource: the aesthetic argument" CAESURA creates tension reflecting the tension between nature activists and polititians
- Addresses the issue of how humans have exploited resources (including animals)
- Connection: Exploitation of nature and animals
- Duffy 2. SHOOTING STARS
- Critisising society for forgetting about this awful period of history. Suggests distance in time should not cause us to forget
- Repetition of "remember" "Remember" and CAPITALISES it drawing attention to vital status of cultural collective memory
- Rhetorical question: "how would you prepare to die....perfect...evening..graves" questioning morality.
- counterpointed impulses of life and death presentes in season of spring (in nature) "perfect april eve" vs ominous "graves"
- Dead"no longer speak" (euphemistic) female first person narration speaks of holocaust experience of being a Jew. Second person is addressed "you would not..."
- AMBIGUOUS TITLE Yellow star of david is a naional symbol for Jews - especially used by nazis as identification
- appropriating a cherished emblem of cultural identity for horrific purposes
- Metaphorical connotation: shooting stars = hope ... hope that history will not repeat itself/ hope society remembers
- AMBIGUOUS TITLE Yellow star of david is a naional symbol for Jews - especially used by nazis as identification
- During WW2 nazi's implemented a systematic programme of murder on an industrial scale in death camps such as Auschwitz.
- Stanzaic enjambment: he loosened// his belt.
- Internal rhyme "click", "trick" and "trickled" rolls easily off tongue, reecreates unexpected near silence surrounding moment. Eldues to mental torture.
- Critisising society for forgetting about this awful period of history. Suggests distance in time should not cause us to forget
- Pugh 2. CAMERAMAN
- Narrator adresses cameraman directly, lexical set of suffering, but not blameful
- "Don't be tempted to turn the camera inward"
- Be the "itch in others" ie make other people feel what you feel when you see this
- Connection: Both address issue of opening societies eyes to the horror of suffering in war ^ or poverty v (awareness)
- Duffy 1. A HEALTHY MEAL
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