Stealing by Carol Ann Duffy - Poem Analysis.
All 9 poems have one common link which is: Youth. The first poem is called “Stealing” and it was written by Carol Ann Duffy. This poem is about a troubled young man who takes away a snowman from someone’s garden and talks about other items he has stolen before such as a camera.Overview. In this poem, Duffy adopts the voice of a bored young man who tells us about his exploits stealing. This speaking a poem in the voice of a character is called a 'dramatic monologue'. It is as if this is a speech from a character in a play. If this poem was a speech from a play how would you imagine this character to look.Form and Tone in Stealing. The poem, Stealing, is presented in five stanzas with no set rhyming pattern. Duffy has stated that, like many poems she writes with a conversational style, the poem naturally fell into verses of five lines. The tone is quite morose and angry. The poem is told in first person and is unlikely to be the voice of the poet herself.
Structuring a comparative essay. Packing your analysis of two poems into one essay involves planning. There are different ways you could approach writing a comparative essay.Before we start analyzing this poem, we should know that Carol Ann Duffy wrote this poem when unemployment was very common in the UK, and that lead to people stealing things. The snowman which is mentioned in this poem was actually her neighbour's snowman which had really got stolen.
Here is an outline of a poem analysis essay to use: Opening paragraph - Introduce the Poem, title, author and background. Body of text - Make most of the analysis, linking ideas and referencing to the poem. Conclusion - State one main idea, feelings and meanings. Introductory paragraph. To start an introduction to a poem analysis essay, include the name of the poem and the author.
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