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‘I wonder if the spirit of the water has anything / to say.’ : Water imagery in Carol Ann Duffy’s Poetry: A Pedagogical Consideration

This essay presents an ecocritical reading of water imagery in selected poems by Carol AnnDuffy, with focus on Duffy’s personified water-voices, how water illuminates history, andDuffy’s metaphor of language as water. After a consideration of the problematics of teachingpoetry in the EFL classroom, the essay concludes that Duffy’s poetry holds potential forstudents to develop environmental literacy, both in content and in form.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-80236
Date January 2019
CreatorsDe Wachter, Elena
PublisherLinnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för didaktik och lärares praktik (DLP)
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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