Ryan Harrison
AQA GCSE titles
Question: compare how death or threat of death is presented in the poems you have studied.
Choose two poems from list A and list B.
Education for leisure by carol ann. Duffy.
Education for leisure; in this poem the first line suggests that there will be something to do with death as the first line is “Today I am going to kill something, ,anything” this suggests the person is a murderer for some kind of animal or possibly a human, in this poem that person that is talking has no feeling, I can tell its talking about them self because in the poem every single line it refers to him/her self like in line nine “ I am a genius, I could be anything at all” there he/she refers to there self as a genius and saying that they could be anything saying they have the power, the person is acting like this because they are sick and tired of being ignored as they say at the beginning of the poem, this person has no feeling at all to go and just kill someone face to face looking in there eyes to see there pain, in the poem the person starts off killing little gold fish, then a budgie, he thinks he can do anything he wants as he said in line two to three “ and today I am going to play |GOD|” as he has killed a fish and a budgie he says in line seventeen “there is nothing left to kill” so he calls the radio and tells the man he is talking to a superstar, he says this as a last try to get attention, a despite struggle to get people to notice him, but the radio cuts him off, they he looses it, he gets a bread knife out of the draw, as the pavements glitter then he grabs someone’s arm. Grabbing some ones arm that is the next step, to kill a human, he is gone mental, has no emotional feelings for any one because they have no feelings for him, he doesn’t get noticed, and he finally has had enough for it.
