Stafford Afternoons
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 not included as a taught poem in the scheme of work, nor is it mentioned on the student handout. It could be recommended to more able students for the theme of violence (as it does contribute to the theme, but more subtly than the others mentioned).
The persona describes slipping away from suburbia into a wood, where she comes across a flasher.
Links to Plath/Larkin: violence (Larkin/Plath)
Lang-Lit points: semantic field of colour, creation of tension through lexical choice, personification of landscape, similes and metaphors.
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