During this essay I will be exploring and comparing two of Carol Ann Duffy's poems, "Education for Leisure" and "Stealing

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Comparison between two of Duffy's poems.

During this essay I will be exploring and comparing two of Carol Ann Duffy's poems, "Education for Leisure" and "Stealing". In both of these dramatic monologues Duffy clearly portrays a certain persona, the character in "Education for Leisure" is shown as a young adult, that, because he has been ignored, is trying to find power by killing living things. Similarly the character in the poem "Stealing" is ignored and friendless and so resorts to stealing just for the thrill of it, often stealing things that aren't useful to him.
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The character in the poem Education for Leisure is very egocentric, "I breathe out talent on the glass to write my name" this shows that he really believes that even the air he exhales is important enough to be classed as talent and he writes his name on it as if it was an autograph. He also says "I could be anything at all, with half a chance." This shows that he isn't given the chance to be anything that he wants to be and that he is quite ignored by others. This helps explain why he goes ...

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