Many of Fanthorpes poems look at the familiar or known from a different or unusual point of view. Discuss what you have found enjoyable in a selection of poems.
In the poems selected, "Hang-gliders in January", "Horticultural show" and "Soothing and awful", Fanthorpe does not perhaps always approach the familiar from an unusual angle but spots the pathos of the commonplace where we had not previously looked for it. She has an extraordinary quality of taking something seemingly trivial and developing thoughts and ideas about it that others may have previously considered but dismissed without developing. The title of the first poem to be considered is 'hang-gliders in January' which sounds very matter-of-fact and average somehow, and by being so can cause the reader to perhaps arrive unjustly at a rushed conclusion about the nature and content of the poem to follow. Nothing is done accidentally by a poet (particularly one of Fanthorpe's quality) and thus there is evidently a reason for her giving the poem such a title. It does give the poem an inexplicable sense of intrigue in that it seems improbable that with such a subject a poem could have a meaningful impact, which means when (and indeed if) it does, it is all the more effective. The actual theme of the poem is not actually simply 'hang-gliders' (although this is the descriptive subject) but something deeper than this; we al
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Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)
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