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.
References: The Aberfan Disaster happened in 1966, when Duffy was 11. A coal mining waste tip collapsed and slid onto the village of Aberfan, killing 144 people.
The persona remembers schooldays through the character of the headmaster.
Links to Plath/Larkin: individual people (Larkin/Plath), childhood (Plath)
Lang-Lit points: similes and strong metaphors, puns and plays on clichés.
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