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Comparing Before You Were Mine by Carol Ann Duffy with * by Simon Armitage.
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Comparing Before You Were Mine by Carol Ann Duffy with * by Simon Armitage There are many similarities and also many differences between the poems, Before You Were Mine by Carol Ann Duffy and * by Simon Armitage. Both poems are about the relationship between a mother and her child. The gender of the child is not specified in either of the poems but we assume that the main character in Before You Were Mine is a little girl and in * it is a young man. Because the main character's 'assumed' gender is the same as the poets, the poems could have been written about the poets own childhood and relationship with their mothers. Neither of the poems can be fully understood at a first reading and need to be studied in depth to get their full meaning, especially in *. The title, Before You Were Mine suggests...
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