Task: how does carol Ann Duffy portray the grim reality of life through the poems ’Stealing’,’ Valentine’ and ‘War photographer’ Duffy was born in Glasgow in 1955 she attended school in stoke and at the age of seventeen she married a 39 year old poet called andiron hendril. He and his work so much that see began to write her own poetry inspired Duffy. Her poems deal with every day things and it is very easy for …showed first 75 words of 1642 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1642 total…feels something in common with her subject - she uses his experience to voice her own criticism of how comfortable Britons look at pictures of suffering, but do not know the reality. She sees the photographer as both priest and journalist. The reader's response to the Sunday newspaper is almost like going to church - for a while we are reminded of our neighbor’s suffering, but by lunchtime we have forgotten what we learned.