Analysis - Stealing
The literary technique in the line, 'Midnight' or 'Boredom'.
What is a declarative?
The literary technique in the line, 'It is an ordinary, day sort of grey...'
What is pathetic fallacy?
The name of the Prime Minister of Britain during the period these poems were written?
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
What theme is explored in the line, 'I wanted him, a mate'?
What is loneliness?
For what does Duffy suggest our education system is preparing youth?
What is unemployment (the word 'leisure' in the title is ironic).
The literary technique in the line, 'The most unusual think I ever stole? A snowman.'
What is hypophora? (when the speaker answers their own question).
The literary technique in the line, 'I see that it is good.'
What is Biblical allusion?
The decade in which both of the poems was written?
When is the 1980s?
What theme is explored in the line, 'You don't understand a word I am saying, do you?"
What is disenfranchised, or what is isolation?
The theme presented by the tone change (from petulant teenager to arrogant confidence) in the line, 'I have had enough of being ignored...'?
What is disenfranchisement?
The technique in 'I joy-ride cars / to nowhere'?
What is enjambment?
The literary technique in the line, 'I pour the goldfish down the bog.'
What is colloquial (or vernacular) language.
The biggest social issue generated by the privatisation of previously nationalised industries such as coal mining.
What is mass unemployment? (fractured communities)
What theme/s is/are related in the phrases, 'I booted him. Again. Again.'
What is violence, frustration or anger? (societal disenfranchisement)
What theme is referenced in the line, 'They don't appreciate my autograph'?
What is unemployment?
What is the technique in the line, 'My breath ripped out in rags'?
What is metaphor?
What does the repetition of 'I' in som many lines suggest about the character
What is inflated self-importance (or narcissism)?
The voice do Duffy's characters speak from in the studied poems.
What is first person, urban disaffected, resentful youth?
The theme conveyed by the character presenting as a 'mucky ghost'?
What is disenfranchisement?
What theme is suggested when Duffy brings the reader into the world of the poem?
What is social responsibility?
The two techniques in the phrase, 'I'm a mucky ghost'?
What is oxymoron and what is metaphor?
What technique is present in the final line of the poem, 'I touch your arm'?
What is breaking the fourth wall?
The honorary position did Carol Ann Duffy hold in the United Kingdom from 2009-2019.
What is the poet laureate of Great Britain?
The tone shifts from initial arrogance and confidence to a much less confient voice in the final stanza. What theme does this show?
What is vulnerability or betrayal?
What is being challenged by the progression of the death of goldfish, budgie and cat?
What is (the lack of intervention by) social services / society?