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Human Interest by Carol Ann Duffy

Narration

Different peoples views you could write as:

  • From the mans point of view
  • From the woman's point of view
  • 'The other mans' point of view
  • Written as the knife

Story Ideas

"She turned away. I stabbed. I felt this heat burn through my skull until reason had died."

Different genres you could base creative writing around:

  • Romance
  • Fantasy
  • Thriller
  • Tragedy
  • Write as someone with a mental health disorder
  • Widowed man/woman

Subject Matter

The poem is about a man who has killed his girlfriend because of the jealousy he felt as she was having an affair. It was a moment of madness.

He is grief-stricken and still loves her and claims at the end of the poem he isn't a violent person, which creates irony because he killed her.

The Poem

Human Interest

Fifteen years minimum, banged up inside

for what took thirty seconds to complete.

She turned away. I stabbed. I felt this heat

burn through my skull until reason had died.

I’d slogged my guts out for her, but she lied

when I knew different. She used to meet

some prick after work. She stank of deceit.

I loved her. When I accused her, she cried

and denied it. Straight up, she tore me apart.

On the Monday, I found the other bloke

had bought her a chain with a silver heart.

When I think about her now, I near choke

with grief. My baby. She wasn’t a tart

or nothing. I wouldn’t harm a fly, no joke.

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