critcial voices

Question 1

Jody Allen-Randolph- Differences between Larkin and Duffy LEARN

Answer 1

“She has an optimistic side that Larkin did not, most visible in her many love poems”

Question 2

Jody Allen Randolph- Similarities between Larkin and Duffys view of life LEARN

Answer 2

“Duffy shares Larkins tragic views of life… loneliness haunts her verse”

Question 3

Duffy saying lorry replaces religion in her secular life

Answer 3

“It does for me; I don’t believe in God”

Question 4

Carol Ann Duffy- Differences in Larkin and Duffy on death LEARN

Answer 4

“I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin on top, and unlike him i laugh, bah, sneer, in the face of death”

Question 5

Andrew Motion- the nature of many of Duffys poems LEARN

Answer 5

“There was a mixture of direct address and something slightly surreal,fanciful,tender-hearted and whimsical”

Question 6

Derby Reese-Jones- Duffy is not a straightforward feminist poet LEARN

Answer 6

“Duffy moves beyond a straightforward feminist power and shows the difficulties that patriarchy present to both men and women”

Question 7

Micheal Woods LEARN mean time

Answer 7

“Duffys poems explore how time is inevitably cruel and takes things away from us”