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Explore the techniques used by Carol Ann Duffy to create contrasting "voices" by comparing two of the persona poems.
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Explore the techniques used by Carol Ann Duffy to create contrasting "voices" by comparing two of the persona poems. In the poem "Fraud", Duffy takes on the persona of an historical figure and creates a voice for it. She writes from the point of view of this character. In doing so, Duffy portrays the feelings and emotions of that character as she sees them. The character in "Fraud" is a Jewish man whose family were all killed in the Nazi holocaust. His name was Jon Ludwick Hoch, who later changes his name to Robert Maxwell. This was so that he could escape his past and what he left behind when he left Slovakia and to help him fit in when he moved to England. A way in which a "voice" is created in this poem is through use of the language, this marks it so you can tell it can only...
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