Human Interest

2014, 5 minutes

Human Interest by the British poet Carol Ann Duffy is the portrait of a murderer and his deed.

The speaker in the poem is the murderer himself. He tells the reader what has happened and why from his first person perspective. In this writeup, I first want to show what can be deduced about the personality and, to a certain extent, the social background of the speaker by analyzing his language and the way he uses it.

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