Ideas, Attitudes, Values, and Beliefs about Education and the Linguistic devices applied to Texts 2 and 3 of the Anthology

textual matter two Comprehensive was written by Carol Ann Duffy, and was taken from her maiden major collection Standing womanish Nude, which was published in 1985. Since becoming a mother, Duffy has become more enkindle in writing for, and roughly children. Comprehensive is a literary act written in first someone narrative that represents speech however, it is intend to be take on silently. The poem deals with the ethnic minorities, and the attitudes of different children living in Britain. The first stanza is ab forth a young girl from Africa, and she explains how she prefers Africa to England. We get the conceit that this girl is no that happy living in England.We talk a dish out about the things we used to do in Africa and then we argon happy (lines 6 and 7).In the second stanza, the sentences are a lot shorter and harsher. It is about a 14yr old son named Wayne who is from England, who we would stereotype as clean-living Trash. We get the imprint from the sentence s tructure and the abrupt speech communication used, that this boy is not very well educated. In fact, the young Afri hind end girl in stanza one keep in linems to constitute better English than the boy in stanza two due to better sentence structures that flow a lot more easier. This boy also shows in this stanza that he is racist. Paki-bashing (line 9) and I dont suppose Ill get a job. Its all them coming over present to work (lines 12 and 13) Here we see his prejudices, and how he is blaming them for him thinking hell neer have a job. Referring to these people as them shows how little he thinks of them.We can link stanza two to stanza 4, which is about a girl from England who sees life as boring. The sentences here are stilted and the use of idiomatic and colloquial language, gives the impression of the typical teenager, white trash stereotype displayed in the children written about from England. Also, linking to stanza 2, it is also subtly racist, Marlon Frederics nice but he s a bit phantasm (line 23). Stanza 6 also links with 2 and 4, due to the racist prejudices displayed. Also, this person shows how he has been fed what he wants to be in the future, suggesting that children in England have no real dreams and ambitions of their own, so they live off what is expected of them. Im issue into the Army. No choice really (lines 36-37). But also, we see how this boy wants to immigrate and live in Australia. Although Australia is an English speaking country, hell still be in exactly the same position as the ethnic minorities living in England (A pomme in an Aussies Society).From the stanzas which are about the children in the ethnic minorities, we see them all link together by the elan they explain how happy they were when they lived in there place of origin. And how grievous it is for them to stay close to their families and loved ones. Families grammatical shield Mecca (line 16) everyone coming together to prayThe last stanza is about how family is v ery important to one boy, and also how difficult he is finding it to adjust to a strange school where he doesnt understand what his teacher is telling him The teacher told us to drink our milk. I didnt understand what she was saying so I didnt get any milk (lines 43-45). At the end of the last stanza, we see how this person is ambitious and has hope for the future, opposed to those who have grown up here.Text three The Play Way was written by Seamus Heaney, the success of the Noble Prize for literature in 1995. He became a regular writer after studying and teaching at Queens University in capital of Northern Ireland until 1972. The Play Way is taken from his first selection of poems, Death of a Naturalist, published in 1966.The Play Way is a literary piece, written in first person narrative and scripted to be read aloud. The poem is about a more relaxed way of education, as suggested by the title. This poem is written in quatrains (equal 4 line stanzas), with enjambment to appoint the poem flow easily and seem more relaxed.In the first stanza, he personifies the medicine The music strides to challenge it (line 3). In stanza 2, we see the genesis gap between pupils and teacher. The children are not sure who Beethoven is, or what type of music he composed, as a childs perspective of music would be the type of music, which would appear mostly to them. Can we jive? (Line 8) is an bearing we would link with the Rock n Roll type of music, or in this case the type of music which appeals to the children.We see that the music seems to have a witching(prenominal) quality for the teacher as it grabs the childrens concentration. Working its private spell fundament eyes that stare wide (lines 13 and 14). Comparing this poem to Text 25, The First Time, by Evelyn Waugh, Paul (a teacher in the poem) had to get the soma on his side, but was forced to use a more firmer method acting to gain the control he wanted which set the text securely in its time. It shows The Pla y Way is a more modern and relaxed way of teaching. Their blundering embrace of the free (line 16) suggests that the lesson was a successful one.In the last stanza, he describes how he sees progression in New Looks (line 19), and how they have sub-consciously, found out more about themselves To fall into themselves unknowingly (line 20).