Compare 4 poems (1 Duffy/ 1 Armitage/ 2 Pre 1914) which you have found

Compare 4 poems (1 Duffy/ 1 Armitage/ 2 Pre 1914) which you have found

interesting because of the way they are structured and the language

used.

In this essay, I am going to compare four poems, which are " Stealing"

by Carol Ann Duffy, "Hitcher" by Simon Armitage, "My Last Duchess" by

Robert Browning and "The Laboratory" by Robert Browning that I have

found interesting as the way they are structured and the language

used.

The four poems all have similarities between themselves, as they are

all involved with the theme of violent. Also, the poets have used many

different language devices with a well-planned structure to make the

poem more appealing to the reader. This is effective, because it makes

the reader feels that it's different from the other poems.

Firstly, in "Stealing" Duffy has started off the poem with a

rhetorical question, "The most unusual thing I ever stole? A snowman."

(Line 1)

This may illustrates to us either that the persona is responding the

question that some one has asked in a conversation or the persona

wanted to tell us what is the unusual thing she/he has stole. This

makes us feel interesting to the poem, because the languages Duffy has

used, to make we as a reader to interpret whatever way we like. The

structure in "Stealing" is irregular, because the previous stanza does

not link towards the next stanza. This perhaps displays that Duffy is

trying to shows the disturbed mind of the persona.

"Mostly I'm so bored I could eat myself." (Line 21)

From this sentence we can find out that the persona is an abnormal

person, because a normal person would not eat him/herself even though

if they were bored. The interesting bit of the structure is that it is

unique. Since that some of the poems always have the same structure

which seem to be normal and dull, therefore if the poem structured in

a different way will make the reader feel it's an extraordinary poem.

In contrast, in "Hitcher", "My Last Duchess" and "The Laboratory"

although, the languages that the poets have used are not violent, but

what the character does in the poem makes the poem seem to be violent.

For example: - In "Hitcher", the murder killed a person in the poem,

"once with the head, then six times with the krooklok in the face".

(Line 13)

From this line it proves that Armitage has hardly used any violent

languages in the violent act scene. This makes the poem seems to be

interesting because the poem has still contains the theme of violent,

without using aggressive languages.