Stealing by Carol Ann Duffy
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- Created on: 22-04-19 17:14
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- Stealing by Carol Ann Duffy
- Themes
- Isolation
- Anger
- Boredom
- Marginalised society
- Structure
- No rhythm/ rhyme scheme
- Replicates chaotic lifestyle and natural speaking voice
- 5 5-line stanzas
- No rhythm/ rhyme scheme
- STANZA 1
- "most unusual thing I ever stole?" - Q/A format
- Talking to audience/direct address
- "Midnight." - single words = memory/story feel
- "mute/...mate" - half-rhyme = beauty from violence
- "mate" - lonely
- "with a mind...within my own brain" - someone he relates to
- Psychologically disturbing: he relates most to inanimate, icy objects
- "I started with the head." - Methodical, pre-planned
- Psychologically disturbing: he relates most to inanimate, icy objects
- "most unusual thing I ever stole?" - Q/A format
- STANZA 2
- "Better off dead than giving in" - prefer to die than not getting what they want
- Major dissatisfaction
- "not taking/what you want" - life opportunities = ironic
- "Part of the thrill...in the morning" - emotionally violent
- "Life's tough." - full stop gives sense of finality to statement
- Feels bitter - tough on the speaker?
- Also empathetic - understanding linked to own life
- "Better off dead than giving in" - prefer to die than not getting what they want
- STANZA 3
- "Sometimes...don't need" - general comment about life
- "joy-ride cars" - denotes immaturity/teenagers
- "just to have a look" - see how others live/lifestyles
- "mucky... pinch" - colloquial language/ informal
- "I watched...like this - Aah" - cinematic description
- "Mirrors." - glamorising theft
- STANZA 4
- "It took some time." - Back to snowman
- "he didn't look the same" - realisation his joy isn't like other people's
- "I took a run/and booted him" - lashing out from boredom
- Enjambment = fast/unexpected actions
- "sick of the world" - aggression = cry for help; doesn't want to be marginalised
- STANZA 5
- "nicked a bust of Shakespeare" - sign of major disrespect/doesn't recognise cultural significance?
- "stole a guitar...learn to play" - wasted creative talent
- "You don't...do you?" - Direct address; starts & ends w/ question
- Sign of loneliness/marginalised feeling
- Audience finds it strange the speaker stole a snowman
- Themes
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