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| ‘Quickdraw’ Carol Ann Duffy SUMMARY | Compares phone calls and texts in a relationship to a gun fight in a western movie.
May be separated or have had an argument before the events of the poem.
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| ‘Quickdraw’ Carol Ann Duffy THEMES | Relationships can become a struggle for power.
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| ‘Quickdraw’ Carol Ann Duffy FEELINGS | Hurt.
Tension.
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| ‘Quickdraw’ Carol Ann Duffy STRUCTURE | Four stanzas of 4 lines each. Two of which are joined by enjambment, where one line carries on to the next. No rhyme scheme or regular rhythm - free verse.
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| ‘Quickdraw’ Carol Ann Duffy LANGUAGE | Imagery associated with cowboy films. Replaces weapons with phones. Light-hearted and humorous tone.
'Take this... /and this...and this...and this...and this' = gunshots or kisses? Intimate physical words 'hear me groan', 'tongue', 'heart', 'kiss'
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| ‘Quickdraw’ Carol Ann Duffy KEY QUOTES | ‘like guns, slung from the pockets of my hips’
‘your voice a pellet/in my ear’
‘squeeze the trigger of my tongue’
‘the silver bullets of your kiss’
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| ‘Quickdraw’ Carol Ann Duffy LINKS TO… | ‘The Farmer’s Bride’ and
‘In Paris with You’
hurt from love.
‘The Manhunt’
communication.
‘Nettles’
imagery from a different context.
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