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A whole range of character relationships and moments from the play able to be discussed here. One method of streamlining a discussion would be to dedicate one or two paragraphs to the more 'negative' mome...

Duffy also presents the fragility of love through her choice of form. ‘You’ is a Shakespearean sonnet, comprised of four quatrains and a rhyming couplet, which is a traditional poetic choice when presenti...

Personification allows a poet to convey human emotion/ experience in inanimate objects. There are various reasons a poet may do this including visual imagery, sensationalism and tonal effect.

Owen and Frost both show characters in their poems who have suffered physical injury. Owen’s Disabled is about a teenage soldier who goes to war having lied about his age, and returns disabled, f...

In his poem 'About His Person', Simon Armitage constructs the identity of the titular 'Person' through describing the objects that surround him. The 'giveaway photograph' in his wallet gives away, so to s...