"Education for Leisure" Carol Ann Duffy

• Engels
• Upper Secondary (Key Stage 4)
• GCSE

Goals for today 

Completion "Stealing" 

Consideration of another poem by Carol Ann Duffy 

Exploration of some authorial choices made by the poet 

The poetic persona guiding question 

Visualising the poetic persona 

Rikard

Robin 

Coen 

Anna 

Kate

Zoë

Elsje

 

Andrea

Emilia 

Aamu 

Kim 

Hugo 

Erik

Shamatmika

Ella 

Lena 

Mia 

Damien 

Cleo  

Megan 

Neysa

Dheeshitha

Alastrina 

"Stealing" 

1. Put your image into your class notebook (add a tab 'Carol Ann Duffy Poetry' if you do not already have that tab). 

2. Add to your image quotes, the techniques seen in those quotes and how these quotes support your visual of the poetic persona. 

"Education for Leisure"
What ideas, associations,
concepts come to
mind from this title?

Reading to the punctuation 

Consideration of a poem by Carol Ann Duffy 

Note expansion to find salient points 

Concepts in the poem and techniques 

The poetic persona 

Which, according
to you is the "best" line
in this poem?

Answer these questions 

Who?

What? 

When? 

Why?

Answer these questions 

• Who? an unemployed young person who thinks he is a genius 
  
• What? He kills the goldfish (maybe kills or tortures the budgie and the cat) 
  
• When? Today, an ordinary day
  
• Why? Because he wants to play God for a day 
  
• Expand this kernel sentence: decides to take control 
  

Summary sentence

On an ordinary day, a young unemployed person, who thinks he is a genius and wants to play God for a day, decides to take control of his life by killing a fly and a goldfish and wanting to hurt others.

"As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; / They kill us for their sport."

King Lear by William Shakespeare

Allusion 

"God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day."

Genesis 1:31

Allusion 

Colloquial

Caesura 

enjambment 

Stanza

Alliteration 

Allusion

End-stopped lines

Anthropomorphism 

Symbolism

Repetition 

Free verse 

How is the topic of alienation and narcissism explored in this poem? 

Pathetic fallacy

AWL

Read Mrs Scholfield's GCSE

Read the note on this poem. 

Research each of the references to Shakespeare's works.

Note the allusions on your copy of the poem. 

Your guiding question for "Mrs Scholfield's GCSE"