Discuss the way that Fanthorpe creates and uses characters in her poetry - 'You will be hearing from us shortly' and 'Telephone conversation'.

... "Sophie Distefano 11Bcbe" U.A.Fanthorpe Using any two or three of the poems you have studied, discuss the way that Fanthorpe creates and uses characters in her poetry. In this essay I will be talking about the poems 'You will be hearing from us shortly' and 'Telephone conversation'. All of the poems that we have read from her collection are about different cultures, society's, ways of life, and just basically people in general. Her poems are all very similar in her way of thinking and how she sees things in one typical point of view. She seems very set in her ways and very stereotypical when she talks about people in society; She is very critical and seems, despite her broad minded take on things, very fascist in the ways that she views different issues. Despite being a minor poet, Fanthorpe seems to have a major yearning for power, and so uses it in

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