Education for Leisure

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Context

Women are not being heard and it is spoken from the view of a women who has been left out of school and unemployment 

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Content

Purpose: The poem is about the state of mind and the path towards murdering someone and their thoughts/ feelings being described out loud so that they can be heard- a lot of women speak out to be heard 

Themes:

  • Death
  • Religion
  • Power
  • Identity
  • Egoism
  • Humanity
  • Education
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Structural Devices

  • First Person pronouns (direct
  • Regular Stanzas
  • Rigid structure shows how she is heartless and shows no remorse towards her actions. Feels trapped and power she has isn't being put to good use. 
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Language Devices

Use of lists

  • Doesn't regret her choice
  • Shows no emotion
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