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Which Poem do you feel is more effective in conveying the plight of the main character?
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Which Poem do you feel is more effective in conveying the plight of the main character? I feel that the poem "Stealing" is more effective in conveying the plight of the main character. Carol Ann Duffy has written sympathetically about a misunderstood and anti-social character. The main themes of the poem are loneliness and confusion. Loneliness is mirrored by single word sentences, used frequently throughout the poem, whereas confusion is shown by the opening and closing lines of the poem being a question. Imagery is also frequently used throughout, which are used by Duffy to set the general mood of the poem - "Beneath the winter moon" - suggests that everything is desolate and gives the impression of coldness, relating to the loneliness of the main character in the poem. This coldness is also repeated as "The slice of ice within my own brain" whereby the sibilance suggests a...
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