Compare the attitudes of the speakers in four poems. Sometimes the attitude of the speaker can be calm, creative and sensual such as Anne Hathaway and Sonnet 130; other times it can be bitter, resentful and slightly criminal, such as The La

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Compare the attitudes of the speakers of 1 Simon Armitage, 1 Carol Ann Duffy and 2 pre 1914 poem?Often, poets use many different devices and diction to present and convey the attitude and the narrative voice of the persona from the poem they are writing. Sometimes the attitude of the speaker can be calm, creative and sensual such as ‘Anne Hathaway’ and ‘Sonnet 130’; other times it can be bitter, resentful and slightly criminal, such as ‘The Laboratory’ and ‘Havisham’. Poets use attitudes to channel the voice of the speaker, and all the emotions and liveliness that comes with it.Firstly, language is used in all four poems as means to depict the attitudes of the speakers. Duffy uses oxymoron to portray the ravaging hate that engulfs the persona, Lady Havisham. The persona spewed up relentless hatred for the “beloved bastard” that left her jilted at the altar. The use of oxymoron shows that the persona had loved him before, and that she gave her heart to him. Now
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he is a “bastard” which she “could strangle” and take “for a long slow honeymoon”. The use of the word ‘strangled’ shows the height of embarrassment and reject that she felt. Lady Havisham is not a bad person, but circumstances lead her to have an attitude which can only be described as being far from happy, and close to being mundane. The “long slow honeymoon” could be described as her eventual and painful reality that she has lived since her fiancé left her vulnerable at the altar. Duffy uses imagery and juxtaposition to create a negative attitude which somewhat verges ...

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