Mean time - Duffy

Poem list

[[Captain of the 1964 Top of the Form Team - 3[[

[[Litany - 5[[

Nostalgia - 6

[[Stafford afternoons - 7[[

[[Brothers - 8[[

[[Before You Were Mine - 9[[

Welltread - 10

[[Confession - 11[[

The Good Teachers - 12

[[Like Earning a Living - 13[[

The Cliche Kid - 14

Pluto - 15

Beachcomber - 16

Caul - 18

[[Away and See - 19[[

Drunk - 20

Small Female Skull - 21

Moments of Grace - 22

[[First Love - 23[[

[[Cafe Royal - 24[[

Crush - 25

[[Never Go Back - 26[[

Oslo - 28

The Grammar of Light - 29

[[Valentine - 30[[

Sleeping - 31

Steam - 32

Close - 33

[[Adultery - 34[[

[[Havisham - 36[[

[[The Suicide - 37[[

Stuffed - 38

[[Fraud - 39[[

The Biographer - 41

The Windows - 43

[[Disgrace - 44[[

Room - 46

Mean time - 47

Prayer - 48

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The Captain of the 1964 Top of the Form Team

Summary

This poem is about a man who in his youth was extremely smart and admired, being the captain of the 1964 top of the form team. In his old age, however, he does not retain this success and grows resentful towards his wife and kids because of this.

Key themes (with quotes)

Childhood/nostalgia:
- ‘The clever smell of my satchel.‘
- ‘I lived in a kind of fizzing hope‘

Duffy comparisons (with quotes/reasons)

Nostalgia

Larkin comparisons (with quotes/reasons)

Additional information (historical context/critics)

Litany

Summary

A poem about about a child witnessing the families around her, including her own, and how they were quite fake and felt like they could only talk about a few topics