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Comparing Armitage and Duffy.
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Have a little read: ... The themes of these two poems are both focusing on relationships between mother & son: Armitage and daughter & mother: Duffy. They both express their feelings very vividly and both have different views about their parents or daughters. The theme of Before You Were Mine is a tribute to the poet's mother. The title suggests a love poem, and the parent-child roles are reversed. The child becomes the carer, asks mother who gave her the love bites and calls her "sweetheart". Armitage is trying to get away from his mother but his mother still wants to hold onto him. Armitage uses various different ways to develop his ideas in the poem. His mother uses a different number of ways to control him e.g. measuring tape. While his mother stays put, he reels out a tape measure, calling figures for her to record. Eventually he reaches the limit of the tape as he
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