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To What Extent do you agree that in her poetry Duffy explores “a sense of alienation and a turning away from the past”
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To What Extent do you agree that in her poetry Duffy explores "a sense of alienation and a turning away from the past"? You should base your answer on a close examination of three or more appropriate poems of your choice. In Duffy's poem "Selling Manhattan" she uses the perspective of a Red Indian in the 1600's feeling naïve and abandoned, by his fellow man, an American. At first she uses linguistics to explore the brutality and harshness of the American man. Using words such as "Injun" and "ass" she has emphasised how the American does not care about the Indian, but is more concerned with his wealth and satisfaction. Duffy also uses italics to emphasise his voice, and to portray blunt, self interested words and sentences. This really sets in stone that the American has tricked the Indian into believing that "twenty four bucks' worth of glass beads" is worth...
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