https://padlet.com/1000049434/dwx12vm2c73ouibi en-us 2023-09-11 19:11:48 UTC 2023-09-18 06:38:12 UTC hello@padlet.com 1000049434 https://padlet.com/1000049434/dwx12vm2c73ouibi/wish/2698060686 On December 23, 1955, Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow, Scotland to Mary Black and Frank Duffy, both of Irish Catholic descent. Together with her four younger brothers, she was raised in Staffordshire in the West Midlands of England where her father worked as a fitter with English Electric.]]> 2023-09-11 19:33:22 UTC https://padlet.com/1000049434/dwx12vm2c73ouibi/wish/2698060686 1000049434 https://padlet.com/1000049434/dwx12vm2c73ouibi/wish/2698064405 She received a degree in philosophy from Liverpool University in 1977. Her first job was writing for television shows, followed by a C. Day Lewis Fellowship to work as a writer-in-residence in East End schools of London from 1982 and 1984. In addition to poetry, Duffy has edited numerous anthologies, authored several critically acclaimed plays and children's books, and has collaborated with the singer and composer Eliana Tomkins on a series of jazz performances. She lives in Manchester and is the Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. Duffy was appointed as Britain's Poet Laureate on May 1, 2009, becoming both the first woman and the first openly lesbian poet to hold the position in its more than 300-year history.]]> 2023-09-11 19:36:47 UTC https://padlet.com/1000049434/dwx12vm2c73ouibi/wish/2698064405 1000049434 https://padlet.com/1000049434/dwx12vm2c73ouibi/wish/2698065049 2023-09-11 19:37:22 UTC https://padlet.com/1000049434/dwx12vm2c73ouibi/wish/2698065049 1000049434 https://padlet.com/1000049434/dwx12vm2c73ouibi/wish/2698073523 She received an Eric Gregory Award in 1984 and a Cholmondeley Award in 1992 from the Society of Authors, the Dylan Thomas Award from the Poetry Society in 1989 and a Lannan Literary Award from the Lannan Foundation (USA) in 1995. She was awarded an OBE in 1995, a CBE in 2001 and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999.]]> 2023-09-11 19:44:49 UTC https://padlet.com/1000049434/dwx12vm2c73ouibi/wish/2698073523 1000049434 https://padlet.com/1000049434/dwx12vm2c73ouibi/wish/2698079455 Duffy’s themes include language and the representation of reality; the construction of the self; gender issues; contemporary culture; and many different forms of alienation, oppression and social inequality. She writes in everyday, conversational language, making her poems appear deceptively simple.]]> 2023-09-11 19:50:13 UTC https://padlet.com/1000049434/dwx12vm2c73ouibi/wish/2698079455 1000049434 https://padlet.com/1000049434/dwx12vm2c73ouibi/wish/2698086707 Carol Ann Duffy, the foremost Contemporary British poet Laureate, presents gender issues in her own distinguishable way and this distinctiveness comes from her individual confidence. She explores everyday experience in her poetry. Duffy’s characters abdicate all feminine gender norms; they have casual sex, discard marriage, smoke, drink, swear, and rebel against society’s expectations in order to subvert feminine archetypes. That is to say, in this collection of poetry, Duffy gives voice to the voiceless women, looks for what it is like to be a woman and uses dramatic monologue to covey her thoughts through these characters. ]]> 2023-09-11 19:56:55 UTC https://padlet.com/1000049434/dwx12vm2c73ouibi/wish/2698086707 1000049434 https://padlet.com/1000049434/dwx12vm2c73ouibi/wish/2698090620 Alliteration: the repetition of consonant sounds, e.g. "red room" and "skelf of shame".
Assonance: the repetition of vowel sounds, e.g. "home, home" and "road, moan".
Asyndeton: the omission of conjunctions, e.g. "All childhood is an emigration".
Colloquialism: the use of informal language, e.g. "skelf" and "bawling".
Enjambment: the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, e.g. "Some are slow,/ leaving you standing, resigned, up an avenue".]]> 2023-09-11 20:00:19 UTC https://padlet.com/1000049434/dwx12vm2c73ouibi/wish/2698090620 1000049434 https://padlet.com/1000049434/dwx12vm2c73ouibi/wish/2708246513 2023-09-18 06:34:32 UTC https://padlet.com/1000049434/dwx12vm2c73ouibi/wish/2708246513 1000049434 https://padlet.com/1000049434/dwx12vm2c73ouibi/wish/2708249014 2023-09-18 06:36:18 UTC https://padlet.com/1000049434/dwx12vm2c73ouibi/wish/2708249014 1000049434 https://padlet.com/1000049434/dwx12vm2c73ouibi/wish/2708250086 2023-09-18 06:37:04 UTC https://padlet.com/1000049434/dwx12vm2c73ouibi/wish/2708250086 1000049434 https://padlet.com/1000049434/dwx12vm2c73ouibi/wish/2708251559 2023-09-18 06:38:12 UTC https://padlet.com/1000049434/dwx12vm2c73ouibi/wish/2708251559