A Critical Analysis of Carol Ann Duffy's 'In Mrs Tilscher's Class'

... A Critical Analysis of Carol Ann Duffy's 'In Mrs Tilscher's Class' In Mrs Tilscher's Class by Carol Ann Duffy, many issues are addressed about her class that play a part in explaining the subjects of the poem. To begin with the content and subjects of the poem are based around a school year in Mrs Tilscher's class. Her entire class is trapped and enthralled during the school day. They are taught information, into intricate detail. For example the poem begins with the line, 'you could travel up the blue Nile with your finger'. This simply begins the world of imagination to which each and every child is subjected. Straight after that, the poem goes on to describe how the children are chanted the scenery of the world by Mrs Tilscher. She remarkably inserts images of geographical places, historical events and general knowledge firmly in the children's brains. 'Tana', the great dam,

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