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Title: Example poetry question A-Level Literature and Language
Description: This is a example answer for a poetry question for English Literature and Language which reflects on the theme of Memory.
Description: This is a example answer for a poetry question for English Literature and Language which reflects on the theme of Memory.
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Both ‘Litany’ and ‘The captain of the 1964 top of the form team’ explore the power of
memory
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Litany is a first person perspective from the account of Duffy which
shows how a childhood memory can cause a negative reflection later on in life
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The 1960’s
was a time of change in Great Britain and the main protagonist experienced some of his best
days in the 1960’s
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This could represent the monotony in the protagonists life,
and that he has no encouragement to know things anymore, which may be the reason why
he goes over his archaic knowledge ‘How many florins in a pound?’ the concrete noun
‘florins’ is a form of archaic currency which may have been popular trivia from when he was
the captain of his quiz team
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The opening line
of ‘The captain of the 1964 top of the form team’ the protagonist uses an asyndetic list of
proper nouns to show the triviality of the list of 1964 songs ‘Do Wah Diddy Diddy, Baby
Love, Oh Pretty Woman’
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Duffy includes the concrete noun
‘B-side’ to show a contrast between his life now and how it was, his life now being the
‘B-side’ as it is the second part of his life and it is usually listened to after the A-side
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The protagonist is jealous of his former life and looks back a his memories
with nostalgia and longs for the past
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From the opening line we get an
insight into the mother’s life which is materialistic and conformist as she hosts a party to
present her assets to her friends
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’ shows that the mother buys
the top of the range which was popular at the time
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Duffy presents the innocence of the child which showed her limited knowledge of the
world
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This may reflect how confused she must have felt
when she was punished for using taboo language
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‘My mothers mute shame
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The poem comes to a close when the protagonist states that a boy had
sworn at her ‘A boy in the playground, I said, told me to fuck off’
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Title: Example poetry question A-Level Literature and Language
Description: This is a example answer for a poetry question for English Literature and Language which reflects on the theme of Memory.
Description: This is a example answer for a poetry question for English Literature and Language which reflects on the theme of Memory.