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To people doing AQA English Literature Spec A, old spec?
If, by some weird reason, you've read the poems by all four poets : Heaney, Clarke, Duffy and Armitage, which groups of poems do you think are better and why? Heaney and Clark? Or Duffy and Armitage. If you've only done one grouping, do you think you did the best one? Would you have preferred to do the other?
I like the poems by the poets I'm doing now, Heaney and Clarke, but I want to see the opinions of others as to which is better.
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Hey, I studied Duffy and Armitage, but have read some Clarke, not Heaney though. However, despite not having done both groups, i'm still glad that i got to study Duffy and Armitage. not least of all because Duffy is now Poet Laureate, but also because i saw Armitage at a poetry conference, and he was AWESOME. What a guy. His poetry always surprises me in the fact that it is deeply personal, but at the same time, so universal that it feels as if he has put exactly what i have thought into words. The collection that his poems for this group are drawn from is incredible. Read it if you have the time. On the other hand, Duffy is . . . well, simply brilliant. Her characterizations in her collection "The World's Wife" is genius, and her poetry has an amazingly lyrical quality to it. Love her.
Source(s): A level English Literature student