Carol Ann Duffy 10 marker quotes

Here’s the quotes I would go for in the exam for the 10 marker. Depending on the question, you would word your analysis slightly differently.

Havisham

‘Beloved sweetheart bastard’
‘ropes on the backs of my hands I could strangle with’
‘don’t think it’s just the heart that b-b-breaks’

Valentine

‘It promises light like the careful undressing of love’
‘it will blind you with tears’
‘Lethal’

War Photographer

‘spools of suffering set out in ordered rows’
‘Rural England’
‘A hundred agonies in black and white/ from which his editor will pick five or six’

Originally

‘as the miles rushed back to the city, the street, the house, the vacant rooms’
‘my tongue/ shedding its skin like a snake’
‘Where do you come from?/ strangers ask. Originally? And I hesitate.’

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