Larkin/Duffy AO5
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Larkin Love
“idealised version love is disparaged”
“paradoxical desire for security”
* Regards the ‘pram in the hall’ as the enemy to art
* Rejects the institution of marriage
“paradoxical desire for security”
* Regards the ‘pram in the hall’ as the enemy to art
* Rejects the institution of marriage
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Larkin Disappointment/Hope
“explores discrepancy between ideal life and disappointment of lived experience”
“fragile sense of hope”
“fragile sense of hope”
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Larkin Consumerism
“understands success in terms of patriarchal capitalism”
* yet rejects the complexity of modernism
* Associates the right with Virtue and the left with Vices
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* yet rejects the complexity of modernism
* Associates the right with Virtue and the left with Vices
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Larkin Cynicism/ Judgement/ Character
“narrow minded little England”
* racism and sexism were considered a part of British heritage
* referred to as “dark England”
* racism and sexism were considered a part of British heritage
* referred to as “dark England”
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Duffy - Gender
“men are desirable, dangerous or pathetic”
* 2nd wave feminism offers the woman a choice
* early 60’s the ‘pill’ made available
* 2nd wave feminism offers the woman a choice
* early 60’s the ‘pill’ made available
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Duffy- Love
“lovers who struggle to formulate their alienation amongst modern, urban cityscapes”
“duplicitous texts, lovers can be heroes and bastards”
* Late capitalism based on fantasy of individual autonomy in a world of strangers
* ‘sex and the single girl’ became a popular publication
“duplicitous texts, lovers can be heroes and bastards”
* Late capitalism based on fantasy of individual autonomy in a world of strangers
* ‘sex and the single girl’ became a popular publication
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Duffy - time
“love and childhood become metaphysical sites of telos”
“reflects time and change and loss”
* setting often reflects Thatcherite Britain
“reflects time and change and loss”
* setting often reflects Thatcherite Britain
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Duffy- Isolation
“the voice of the urban disaffected”
* austerity of Thatcherite Britain
Marxist perspective
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* austerity of Thatcherite Britain
Marxist perspective
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General Duffy/Larkin
“shares Larkin’s tragic views”
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