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Havisham and Anne Hathaway
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Poetry Comparison Havisham and Anne Hathaway By Carol Ann Duffy The poems Havisham and Anne Hathaway by Carol Ann Duffy are about the personal relationships between couples; the former has a relationship which has been entirely destroyed and has swung into the prospect of hatred and resentment, the latter is about a relationship in which the married couple are 'head over heels in love' for each other. In Havisham, the speaker is the literary character Miss Havisham, from the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. In the novel, Miss Havisham is a depicted as a wealthy spinster, who was left at the altar at her marriage by a man named Compeyson, and this poem by Carol Ann Duffy is an attempt to draw out the thoughts of Miss Havisham. The second poem is about the love between William Shakespeare, the famous English poet and playwright, and Anne Hathaway, his beloved wife, who...
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