carol ann duffy and sheenagh pugh themes and connections

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THEME
- Feminism and Female Experience
  - DUFFY- Standing Female Nude PUGH- Eva and the roofers
    - Connections: how women are perceived through the male eye
  - DUFFY- Oppenheims Cup and Saucer PUGH- The Haggard and the Falconer
    - Connections:Sexual pleasure from men is not needed here. BUT in Pugh's poem the woman wants male pleasure (is neglected). Duffy- women don't want it.
- Relationships/Love/Sex
  - DUFFY- Who Loves You PUGH- Paradise for the Children
    - Connections: both show paternal love
  - DUFFY- Eley's Bullet PUGH- Delayed Reactions
    - Connections: Eley's Bullet shows ending of love/relationship and delayed reactions show falling in love
- Language and Abuse of Language
  - DUFFY-Poet for our times PUGH- The ballade of **** Rexy
    - Connections- Language is no longer an art form/doesn't mean anything when used in the media.
  - DUFFY- Words, Wide Night PUGH- Owl'sNight Thoughts
    - Connections- Both show language to create an idealised version of love or used to express love
- Political and Social Issues
  - DUFFY- A healthy meal PUGH- Biology 3
    - Connections- both talk about exploitation of things i.e. nature and animals
  - DUFFY- Making Money PUGH- The Partner
    - Connections- lack of passion for occupation for diff. reasons and making money from passion
- School, Childhood, and Youth
  - DUFFY- Originally PUGH- Intercity Lullaby
    - Connections- both show journey out of adolescence but Intercity is forced movement (no work) and Originally is due to parents moving
  - DUFFY- Mr's Tilcher's Class PUGH- Sweet 18
    - Connections- both explore difficulties of growing up and the transition into adulthood
- Imagination, Dreams, Fantasy
  - DUFFY- Dear Norman PUGH- Owl's Night Thoughts
    - Connections- Both imagined love/idealised
  - DUFFY- Liar PUGH- John Howard
    - Connections- both show desire to change their life. Liar- more exciting and JH- less exciting
- Alienation, Isolation, Social Misfits
  - DUFFY- Education for Leisure PUGH- She was 19, she was bored
    - Connections- boredom/lack of ambition and education can lead to crime and society also rejects some people
  - DUFFY- Boy PUGH- Old Widowers
    - Connections- Isolation makes people vulnerable and reduces them to children
- Nostalgia and Memory
  - DUFFY- Whoever She Was PUGH- Sweet 18
    - Connections- looking back on gr
- Violence and Death
  - DUFFY- Education for Leisure PUGH- She was 19, she was bored
    - Connections- boredom can lead or be the cause to violence
  - DUFFY- A Healthy Meal PUGH- Cameraman
    - Connections- Humans are ignorant to suffering or hardly witness the suffering they digest (food or camera documentary)
- Created 'Personas'
  - DUFFY- Liar PUGH- John Howard
    - Connections- persona's created to make their life more/less exciting
  - DUFFY- Education for Leisure PUGH- I am Roerek
    - Connections- Created persona's that both show power or the strive or struggle for power
- Men and Male attitudes
  - DUFFY- Boy PUGH- Old Widowers
    - Connections- men are emotionally dependent on women
  - DUFFY- Standing female nude PUGH- Eva and the Roofers
    - Connections- men can objectify women but in both positive and negative ways
- Loss of Innocence
  - DUFFY- Lizzie, Six PUGH- What Christie Wrote
    - Connections- innocence lost due to adults and death
  - DUFFY- In Mr's Tilcher's Class PUGH- Sweet 18
    - Connections- Loss of innocence due to growing older
- Desire
  - DUFFY- Standing Female Nude PUGH- Eva and the Roofers
    - Connections- desire is used to gain power
  - DUFFY- Oppenheim's Cup and Saucer PUGH- Sweet 18
    - Connections- destructive desire and reciprocate desire

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