What would form an analysis of "Not My Best Side" by U.A Fanthorpe, "Suicide in the Trenches" by Siegfried Sassoon and "Flying the Flag in Bosnia" by...

One point
of analysis in the three poems is how each constructs the "outsider/ insider" dynamic.
 In this dynamic, there is a clear distinction between those who possess power and voice and
those who are denied it.  Such a reality is an integral part of the three poems.  In Fanthorpe's
"Not My Best Side," the speaker, who is the subject of a painting and thus
representative of an "insider," actually speaks the words of an outsider.  The poetic
voice opens the poem with the words of someone whose real voice has been silenced: "Not my
best side, I'm afraid./ The artist didn't give me a chance to/ Pose properly..." The
"outsider" feel to the poem is confirmed with the delving into the's thoughts in the
opening of the second stanza:  "It's hard for a girl to be sure if/ She wants to be
rescued."  This line represents how voice and power are denied by both social convention
and the rendering of the artist. The subject of the painting does not experience power
and...

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