Duffy Critical Quotes Flashcards
1
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Lewison-mortality
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Human experience is measured against the inevitability of mortality
2
Q
O’Reilly
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Angry, political, elegiac […], witty, nakedly honest, accessible, mysterious’
3
Q
Duffy
A
“I like to use simple words but in a complicated way”
4
Q
Rees-Jones
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“We can see the nostalgia and disaffection of Philip Larkin” within Duffy’s poetry.
5
Q
Duffy
A
“I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death”
6
Q
Duffy
A
“The poems are all concerned with love, yes, in its various stages, but equally so with language as love’s stammering, inarticulate messenger.”
