Critics

Question 1

Mendelson - reality

Answer 1

‘It is the sadness of the real world that gives her words weight’
- Beautiful
- The Woman who Shopped
- Diet
- Work
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Question 2

O’Reily

Answer 2

‘Both serious and humorous’ and ‘incorporates humour with serious insights and social commentary’
- Laughter of Stafford girls
- The Woman who Shopped
-Sub

Question 3

Viner

Answer 3

Duff’s poetry was filled with lost loves and yearning for the past’
- North West
- Wish
- Death and the Moon

Question 4

Kennedy

Answer 4

‘Her poetry emerges as an interrogation of contemporary culture’
-The Diet
-The Woman Who Shopped
-Work

Question 5

Mendelson - themes

Answer 5

’ Its poems are linked by two themes - fulfilled dreams and an adults awareness of consequences’
Unaware of consequences
-the map woman
-the diet
-the woman who shopped
-work
-laughter (awareness of consequences)
-dreaming week (unfulfilled)
-North-West (unfulfilled dreams)