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Dramatic monologues Carol-Ann Duffy is a very influential poet, through the use of dramatic monologues she explores a variety of different themes, she gives voices to historical figures and individuals that are ostracised from society. Duffy uses diverse voices ranging from well-established individuals such as an English teacher, journalist and other professionals to the other extreme of exploring the thoughts of psychopaths and criminals. Duffy is able to articulate with such frequency and depth the minds of often quite disturbed individuals. Carol Ann-Duffy adopts a persona of individuals regardless of age, sex and gender; she conveys very realistic passionate thoughts and feelings of confusion, isolation, loss and despair. Duffy’s monologues are often constructed in tight structured stanzas in colloquial conversation; the scene set is often of an individual speaking to themselves or to others. The use of language that Duffy uses to create the persona conveys the certain characteristics that the individual possess and creates a mood such as tense or sombre to emphasise the state of mind that the individual is in. Such