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Many of Fanthorpes poems look at the familiar or known from a different or unusual point of view. Discuss what you have found enjoyable in a selection of poems.
Title: Many of Fanthorpes poems look at the familiar or known from a different or unusual point of view. Discuss what you have found enjoyable in a selection of poems.
Category: Literature / English
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Many of Fanthorpes poems look at the familiar or known from a different or unusual point of view. Discuss what you have found enjoyable in a selection of poems.
In the poems selected, "Hang-gliders in January", "Horticultural show" and "Soothing and awful", Fanthorpe does not perhaps always approach the familiar from an unusual angle but spots the pathos of the commonplace where we had not previously looked for it. She has an extraordinary quality of taking something seemingly trivial and developing thoughts and ideas about it that others may have previously considered but dismissed without developing.
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…showed last 75 words of 2271 total…encephalitis)” and “The quiet grave”. There is much that is similar about Fanthorpe’s poetry but still each poem is uniquely different from the next. She may not stun us with her original choices of subject but she stuns in other ways, like by addressing familiar topics in original ways (which is surely better than addressing original topics in familiar ways) meaning that her poetry is very accessible, relevant and enjoyable for many different people.
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