Graham Rawle
- Visual artist (Multimodal text) “Combined reading of both text and image to form a new language
Setting
- 1960s England
- Suburban setting (in between city and countryside)
- post WW2 – focus on family, a typical setting of the era
Style
- Ironic
- Wryly humorous
Background
- Mass production
- Convenience centered e.g. electricity, machinery
Idiolect of Norma
- She wants to be validated and recognised
- Norma says that her brother roy is very “caring” and “daring”. This is how Norma would have seen Roy as, if she was alive
P23 – “Roy must have ordered them in secret”
Your opening thesis tries to situate the poem in terms of explaining the overall ideas, but you need to be careful not to make this sound like an autobiographical poem about Duffy herself – instead, focus on the character of Little Red Cap. For your next practice, work on making that opening thesis really clear and definite – what’s the poem all about? What ideas are explored? How is it crafted or styled? Then go into specifics.
You explore the detail generally well and you have a good insight and understanding – you link ideas to specific detail: well done. You speak clearly and with fluency. In addition to the opening thesis, focusing on the structure of your talk will be the focus for your next oral practice.