Comparing Head of English to R.E your poem and recent visit.

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Gemma Lee

 

Comparing Head of English to

R.E your poem and recent visit

The purpose for the head of English is to in some way give English teachers a bad name. Carol Ann Duffy is a visiting poet to an all girls school, at the school she finds that the head of English is unwelcoming and tries her best to make her feel small. She wants the audience to know the ordeal that she went through, so this is in some way to get revenge and to entertain the audience by showing what her version of a stereotypical English teacher is like. She is also mocking her, by over elaborating on her actions and the things she says.

The purpose for R.E your poem and recent visit is a reply to the poem Head of English. Andrew Mayne is saying that it is unfair to give all English teachers a bad name, and tries to show through his writing what they are really like. He finds the poem offensive and so in return tries to offend Carol Ann Duffy in some way, by using the same style of mocking ness and over elaborating. His purpose to the audience is to show humour about the way in which he mocks carol Ann Duffy for her poem. Also, its purpose is to entertain and to prove a point to anyone who has read the poem head of English, so he is standing up and going against the views of Carol Ann Duffy.

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The attitudes and values of the head of English is that she doesn’t like visitors coming into the school and teaching ‘her’ pupils. She believes that she is just as good as a poet as the one visiting, that’s why she treats the poet unfairly. She is also somewhat jealous of the poet (perhaps because she has made something of her life, whereas she hasn’t). She feels the poet is telling her what to do and how to teach and she feels that this is rude as she is the guest. The head of English values poets with a ...

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