'Stealing' by Duffy
How does Duffy express her frustration at political changes in her poem, 'Stealing'? Carol Ann Duffy writes her poem, Stealing, in the style of a dramatic monologue through a hostile juvenile's perspective that repeatedly steals meaningless objects from others with no disregard to their consequences. She uses the extended metaphor of stealing a snowman, along with other anecdotes about stealing items, to represent the character's repressed anger and unfairness in taking and misusing the things the character takes. The juvenile character symbolises the government during the 1890's under the reforms of Margaret Thatcher, and Duffy uses this character in order to show how the government recklessly takes from the working-class with no care or regard for their actions on the others. The perspective of a juvenile is used in order to show the immature and destructive traits that are also seen by the government. Duffy adopts frustrated and aggressive tone throughout t
