What do you find interesting about the ways in whichCarol Ann Duffy presents her ideas in "Saying Something."

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What do you find interesting about the ways in which Carol Ann Duffy presents her ideas in "Saying Something."

In this essay I will be looking at Carol Ann Duffy's "Saying Something" along with exploring and discussing the ways in which she presents her ideas in the poem.

Carol Ann Duffy's poem "Saying Something," presents the idea of love, how a person feels when the one they love is gone, the emptiness, the hoping, how they picture everything and everyone as their partner. "Things assume your shape." Without them the poet is nothing.

In "Saying Something" Carol Ann Duffy uses enjambment. The rhythm of the words is disjointed, which I think is a reflection on how absent love makes the poet feel. Unsettled. There is no use of rhyme in the poem, and so it is irregular and disturbing. Throughout the poem the way she talks changes. It is written in the second person, directly to her lover even though she won't tell him. It's secret. Throughout the paragraphs she changes the phrases, we, you, I. Depending on how alone she is.

The first stanza is very