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Exploring Duffy's theme in the poems Education for Leisure and In Mrs. Tilchers class. Education for leisure is a powerful poem, which explores the mind of a disturbed person, who is planning murder. We are not told if the speaker is male or female, though this barely seems to matter. What we do know is that they have a powerful sense of their own importance, and a greater sense of grievance that no one else notices him. 'In Mrs. Tilcher's class' Duffy discusses the transition from childhood to the adult world, from security of childhood to dangers outside school gates, symbolized by sexual knowledge. This is what perhaps connects the two poems. 'In Mrs. Tilcher's class' Duffy shows how little knowledge a young innocent child perceives, and the dangers that a child grows up to belong to. This danger is very much like the one described in 'Education for Leisure'. To start...

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