Woman Seated In The Underground, 1941

Context... Events

• Context is basically the events of the story
• These events tie back to the imagery and the subject of the text.

Evidence

• "The skies were filled with sirens, planes, fire,bombs,and i lost myself in the crowd. Dear God" (Ann Duffy, 1941, line 20-21)

ANALYSIS

• The events of the sirens, planes, fire, and bombs create imagery and this gives us this idea of war and we can see it so clearly .It ties in with the subject of this poem as a whole.
• The context of her saying she lost herself in the crowd relates back to the subject of this poem. So when it says she lost herself in the crowd, she could mean it literally, as in she lost in all the commotion, or metaphorically, as in she lost her identity and memory due to the chaos.

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• The effect of Ann Duffy's context makes the poem come alive because it gives us such a visual of the events that took place in the War.
• Duffy's trying to play with the idea of lost identity while expressing her voice to the readers.