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discuss "The Dolphins" by Carol Anne Daffy as a poem that reflects on the theme of oppression,control and confinements by the animals
Answer should cover all the points of the poem and it should be a bit lengthy too​

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Born to working class Roman Catholic parents in Glasgow, Carol Ann Duffy is the first female poet, first Scot and first openly LGBT person to be named the Poet Laureate of England. Carol began writing poems from the age of 11 and had published several of her works by the time she turned 16. Two English teachers June Scriven and Jim Walker were instrumental in discovering her talents and encouraging her to publish poems in various magazines. Duffy graduated from the University and lectured at Manchester Metropolitan University .

Her first collection of poems Female Standing Nude deals with the construction of femininity through art and culture and questions the same. The collection won the Scottish Arts Council Prize. The World’s Wife represents the retelling of myths and history voiced by the wives and lovers of famous men ranging from Sisyphus to Aesop. Mean Time won the Whitbread poetry award and Rapture bagged the T.S Eliot Prize. Duffy was also named fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.