Compare how death or the threat of death is presented in the poems you have studied?

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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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of his death are both seen. This is similar to Browning’s poem, ‘The Laboratory’, in which we see the persona, a rampaging maniac who is ready to kill her husbands’ mistress. The stanzas could be envisioned as a clock. There are12 stanzas and as the stanzas progress so does her dire craze for her husband’s mistresses death increases and almost takes over. The readers are left to imagine the evil within the persona and the depth she would go to into killing.On the other hand, ‘November’ creates a calm and loving ambiance around the theme of death. This is somewhat ...

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