The term could further underscore a crucial theme of the poem, as fire, in the context of love, is generally associated with passion. ... In the context of love, the author could possibly assert that love is more authentic and more surreal when experienced first-hand, and poetry based on love can be somewhat limiting. ... Perhaps the structure and diction of the poem, which Duffy retains incredibly succinct, can be equated to represent the unusual mechanism of time in a dream, and how it seems to lose its normal gist of fluidity in the context of a dream. ...

• Word Count: 1990
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Raine forces the reader to see for the first time things he or she has been glimpsed - and maybe even taken for granted - during a lifetime in a twisted and mixed language to revive the ordinary. ... In this context our sanitation is seen as solitary confinement. ...

• Word Count: 1520
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Raine forces the reader to see for the first time things he or she has been glimpsed - and maybe even taken for granted - during a lifetime in a twisted and mixed language to revive the ordinary. ... In this context our sanitation is seen as solitary confinement. ...

• Word Count: 1520
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

'You do not do, you do not do/ Any more, black shoe/ In which I have lived like a foot/ For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breath or Achoo', is the opening description provided by Plath of her circumstances in 'Daddy'. In this opening stanza, the familiar image of a foot ...

• Word Count: 2183
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate