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Back to category: English Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. Journey's in Carol Ann Duff's 'Originally' Investigate the liberating and/or destabilising power of journeys. In her poem Originally, Carol Ann Duffy demonstrates the destabilising power of journeys. Within the poem is the story of a physical journey of childhood of the speaker and her family from one country to another. The poet shows how physical journeys result in a corresponding emotional journey, which in this poem ultimately proves destabilising in terms of the speaker’s sense of identity and belonging. By implication the speaker initially had a sense of security and belonging in her “own countryâ€. Her identity was centred around “the city, the street, the house, the vacant rooms where we didn’t live any moreâ€. But her sudden emigration away from these familiar surroundings shakes her sense of self and changes her identity. The journey to a new country, to “corners, which seem familiar, leading to unimagined, pebble-dashed estates†begins the process of destabil... Posted by: Geraint Watts Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. |
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