Critics For All Flashcards
(15 cards)
Randolph: hopeless
‘Duffy shares Larkin’s hopeless view of life’
Randolph: optimism
‘She has an optimistic side Larkin did not’
Quinn: echoes
‘Many of Duffy’s poems echo themes of Larkin’
Adam O’Riordan ‘Examines love…
…in many forms’
Katherine Viner ‘Acc…
..esible’
Eavan Boland ‘Challenges and alters power relationships…
…by making women both the subject and object of love poems’
Elizabeth O’Reilly ‘Explores the way in which meaning and reality…
…are constructed through language’
Elizabeth O’Reilly ‘Insight into such…
…disturbed minds’
Preston ‘A persistent sense in her work that love…
…involves as much suffering as it does joy’
Katherine Viner ‘Duffy’s poetry was filled with…
…lost loves and yearning for the past’
Deryn Rees-Jones ‘We can see the nostalgia…
…and disaffection of Philip Larkin’
Lewison ‘Memories return to linger over…
…moments of transient happiness’
British Council ‘She writes in everyday,…
conversational language’
Poetry Foundation ‘Strong…
Feminist edge’
Deryn Rees-Jones ‘Use of demotic,…
everyday language’
