Disgrace
Beth Kemp | Tuesday March 29, 2011
Categories: Courses, A Level, AQA A Level, AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, ELLA4, Poetry, Analysing Poetry, Duffy, Mean Time
This poem is included as a taught poem in the scheme of work, as it could be used for two different questions. It could also be recommended to more able students for a question on the use of imagery.
References: This poem should clearly be read in conjunction with “Moments of Grace”.
The speaker describes a sudden realisation that a relationship has ended, by personifying the house and all that’s in it as decayed or spoiled by the souring of the couple’s love.
Links to Plath/Larkin: love and romance (Larkin), isolation (Larkin/Plath), imagery (Larkin/Plath)
Lang-Lit points: imagery, especially personification and metaphor, address, tone and spoken mode feel, minor sentences, repetition of “woke”.
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