Larkin And Duffy AO5 Flashcards

Professor Rahman (hint: voice)

"Duffy gives [a] voice to the voiceless women"

Eavan Boland (hint: scrubbed)

Duffy "takes Larkin's tone, scrubbed with lyric pessimism, and re-inscribing it on the life of a contemporary woman poet"

Leo Cox

Larkin is an "archetypical English poet" filled with "cynicism and criticism"

Philip Larkin (hint: reader)

"A poet never thinks of his reader. Why should he?"

Bryan Appleyard (hint: advocate)

"He is an advocate of misanthropy and pessimism"

Bryan Appleyard (hint: hopeless)

"Larkin is a hopeless and flexible pessimist"

Philip Larkin (hint: simply)

"... writes fairly simply in the language of the ordinary people.", Rejects Modernism

Alan Brownjohn

To Larkin "life... is something lived mundanely"

Eavan Boland (hint: love)

Duffy makes "women both the subject and object of love poems"

Eavan Boland (hint: displacement)

"Mean Time is a book concerned with recovery and memory... and displacement"

Kaniz Tisha

"The poems in Mean Time are marked by their emotional honesty, linguistic precision, and the poigniant exploration of the human condition"

Clive James

"His need for affection was matched by his equally consuming need to be alone"

Bryan Appleyard (hint: tolls)

"His dreary, predictable, damp, reductive misery tolls on relentlessly"

Andrew Motion

"Death, in Larkin's view, is an utterly comfortless blank"

Carol Ann Duffy

Mean Time is concerned with "the different ways which time brings about change or loss"

Professor Rahman (hint: female)

"The speakers of the poems are dominant, bold, colourful, and unapologetically female"

Jody Allen-Randolph

"Faliure, loneliness, isolation and emptiness haunt her verse"

Elizabeth O'Riley

Explores "the deepest recesses of human emotion, both joy and pain"