Woman Seated In The Underground, 1941

Observation

• The author uses imagery to show how the Woman is slowly loosing her identity throughout the poem.

Observation

• The poet Carol Duffy uses imagery to show how the Woman is slowly loosing her identity throughout the poem.

Evidence

• "There was a bang and then I was running with the rest through smoke. Thick, grey smoke has covered thirty years at least"(Carol Ann Duffy, 1941 stanza 1 line 4-6)

Analysis

• The Poet used the The imagery in the quote such as "Thick, grey smoke has covered thirty years at least" to show how the Woman in the underground began to loose her identity. When the smoke covers her not only is it covering her face but her identity, her whole life.

Evidence

• " The sky is filled with sirens, planes, fire, bombs, and I lost myself in the crowd."(Carol Ann Duffy, 1941 stanza 3 line 5-6)

Analysis

• The poet Duffy uses the imagery in this quote to equate the horrors off the bombs, sirens, and planes fly over head, to loosing her self as a person

Effect

• The effect the author left through imagery was the struggle the women was going through trying to hold on to her identity.