Carol Ann Duffy

One of our texts: poems by Carol Ann Duffy (PLA, 20th-21st century, Europe)

Poet Laureate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poet_laureate

Duffy as a Poet Laureate: https://www.ft.com/content/89f0c588-367b-11de-af40-00144feabdc0

The Twelve Days of Christmas (once again, see also the post on allusion):

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/the-12-days-of-christmas-2009-poet-435367

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/dec/06/poet-laureate-duffy-christmas-poem

See also Cockermouth and Workington below.

Traditional song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyEyMjdD2uk

Analysis of the traditional song: https://literarydevices.net/the-twelve-days-of-christmas/

The Christmas Truce:
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/index.php/multimedia/poetry-spoken-word/101-carol-ann-duffy-the-christmas-truce
Illustrated version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnOhLPzYDUc
How do the illustrations add to the poem / interact with the poem, and what's the effect on the reader?
Video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG-LmXKkH_E
History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUlPNWDvk-c (11:12)
Analysis: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2011/12/truc-d27.html

Politics, Duffy's first poem as official Poet Laureate:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jun/12/politics-carol-ann-duffy-poem
(what politics does to a person when they enter politics)

https://fsgworkinprogress.com/2016/04/20/politics/
Ecopolitics: get this online: Reading Carol Ann Duffy's “Politics” - UKM e-Journal System (pdf)

Two more short poems (kind of political)

Campaign: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/10/campaign-a-poem-by-carol-ann-duffy-exclusively-for-the-guardian

Carol Ann Duffy wrote this poem in response to the 2017 general election result, a result that took almost everyone by surprise, not least Theresa May, the subject of Duffy"s piece. The poem is short and comprised mostly of metaphors.

Metaphor is the comparison of two concepts through language, often done by using the verb 'to be'.  Metaphor is often seen as a literary device used by poets. Metaphors, however, can be found in every day speech and images.
Analysis (kind of): https://www.thebookseller.com/news/carol-ann-duffy-pens-scathing-post-election-poem-567886
Theresa May: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_May
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_through_fields_of_wheat

https://www.irishnews.com/magazine/daily/2017/06/10/news/carol-ann-duffy-savaged-theresa-may-in-this-election-themed-poem-1051556/

A possible BOW: 

Photos of flooded Venice: https://mymodernmet.com/natalia-elena-massi-venice-flood/

To go with Carol Ann Duffy's "flinty alliterative honouring of the northern towns hit by floods, "Cockermouth and Workington"" (cited from https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/football-floods-and-royal-weddings-carol-ann-duffy-makes-poetry-heard-in-national-life-2366400.html))

Cockermouth and Workington:

On Duffy's poetry as being political:
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/football-floods-and-royal-weddings-carol-ann-duffy-makes-poetry-heard-in-national-life-2366400.html

Duffy's style: https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/carol-ann-duffy
Fricatives: http://englishtutorhome2.blogspot.com/2013/04/sounds-in-poetry-sibilant-plosive.html

History vs herstory and Duffy

Elements of poetry: https://learn.lexiconic.net/elementsofpoetry.htm

Poetry analysis fact sheet: http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/analysis.html

Herstory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herstory

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Moving-Beyond-History-and-by-Burl-Hall-121219-896.html

Carol Ann Duffy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Ann_Duffy

Poet Laureate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poet_laureate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poet_Laureate_of_the_United_Kingdom

Feminist literary criticism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_literary_criticism

http://writersinspire.org/content/feminist-approaches-literature

Standing Female Nude (includes War photographer and Education for Leisure)

https://www.preceden.com/timelines/288535-carol-ann-duffy-and-standing-female-nude

https://emilyspoetryblog.com/2013/10/16/education-for-leisure-by-carol-ann-duffy/

The World's Wife: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Wife

A review: http://www.theguardian.com/books/1999/sep/25/costabookaward.features

Several poem analyses here (don't go until we've dealt with the poems):

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/search?q=carol+ann+duffy&page=1

Feminine Gospels includes Beautiful: https://genius.com/Carol-ann-duffy-beautiful-annotated

History: https://genius.com/Carol-ann-duffy-history-annotated

The Diet: https://genius.com/Carol-ann-duffy-the-diet-annotated

Top poems to read: 

https://poemanalysis.com/carol-ann-duffy/

An ode to meters:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3713557/Poet-laureate-publishes-verse-praising-old-fashioned-devices-removed-British-homes-paid-undisclosed-fee-energy-company.html

An interview: 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/27/carol-ann-duffy-poet-laureate-books-interview

Sincerity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgWAkkwD-sM

Royal wedding poem: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-interactive/2018/may/18/carol-anne-duffys-royal-wedding-poem-long-walk

Keep it in the ground: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/27/keep-it-in-the-ground-a-poem-by-carol-ann-duffy

School- and education-related poems

Document of the same name on Tera with most of them in it:)
Annotate the following poems (sources give you poems online plus some analysis). Do not go to online analyses until you have done your own annotation.

Also think of the following: What do you identify as the predominant aspects of this text? Consider aspects that are more abstract than textual / literary features, e.g. tensions, conflicts, ironies, ideas, etc.

* In Mrs Tilscher’s class

https://insideenglishteaching.wordpress.com/2013/04/28/poetry-carol-anne-duffy/

http://www.whec.edin.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/in-mrs-tilschers-class-annotated-1.pdf
* Head of English: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciftX9KbtKU
* The Good Teachers
https://carolannduffypoems.tumblr.com/post/38792533471/the-good-teachers
https://poemanalysis.com/carol-ann-duffy/the-good-teachers
* Death of a Teacher
https://poetryshark.wordpress.com/tag/carol-ann-duffy/
https://poemanalysis.com/carol-ann-duffy/death-of-a-teacher
https://prezi.com/p/bru6ej31jugf/death-of-a-teacher-by-carol-ann-duffy/
* Education for Leisure
https://emilyspoetryblog.com/2013/10/16/education-for-leisure-by-carol-ann-duffy/
https://genius.com/Carol-ann-duffy-education-for-leisure-annotated
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2008/sep/04/gcses.english

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1052970/Why-ban-Shakespeare-Poet-strikes-knife-verse-dropped-GCSE.html
* Comprehensive
https://genius.com/Carol-ann-duffy-comprehensive-annotated
http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/poetry/duffy.htm#comprehensive
* Dark School
http://www.tusitala.org.uk/carol-ann-duffy-dark-school/
https://poemanalysis.com/carol-ann-duffy/the-dark-school
Task: Read and annotate (individually, or in pairs or in small groups), and create a blog post on your chosen poem, adding links to useful sources, and a plan on the most insightful things to talk about when analysing it, plus what global issue(s) you could connect this to. It would be especially lovely if you could think of a non-lit BOW ...

Some related non-lit to widen your horizons: 

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/10-barriers-to-education-around-the-world-2/

https://www.adsoftheworld.com/taxonomy/industry/education

Malala Fund: https://malala.org/girls-education?sc=header

Malala's diary: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-29565738

This diary will be a BOW we'll look into together.

A little bit of fun: https://magmapoetry.com/which-poem-would-you-ban-from-the-school-syllabus/