Compare how death or the threat of death is presented in the poems you have studied? (36 marks)‘Havisham’ by Carol Ann Duffy and ‘The laboratory’ by Robert Browning, both present evil-like and mundane forms of death. However, ‘November’ by Armitage and ‘On My First Sonne’ by Ben Johnson present the natural cycle and almost the relationship side of death on the two poems.To begin with, ‘Havisham’ is structured in four stanzas. The stanzas could represent the persona’s intensifying hatred with the ‘beloved sweetheart bastard’ that left her standing at the altar, all alone. Secondly, Duffy uses the enjambant as means to show how her thoughts of killing him replays in her mind; as the sentence runs across to the last stanza, her hatred and her calculations
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