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Concepts: Poetry, Stanza, Woman, The Reader, Gender, Time, Man

The Map as a Metaphor

In the poem ‘The Map Woman’, Carol Ann Duffy uses the extended metaphor of a map being printed on a woman’s body to explore ideas surrounding hometowns, childhood and nostalgia. This is immediately introduced in the first line where the reader learns that ‘A woman’s…

Carol Ann DuffyPoetry3 Pages

“In Mrs Tilscher’s Class”: Self-Discovery and Versatile Poetic Technique

Carol Ann Duffy’s poem “In Mrs Tilscher’s Class” expresses the poetic speaker’s love for literature in the context of an intriguing personal narrative. Such a passion came from her primary school teacher as Duffy’s protagonist grows into adulthood — from a dramatised experience in her…

Carol Ann DuffyPoetry2 Pages

Violence and Gender in Duffy’s “Queen Herod”

Queen Herod is taken from Duffy’s The World’s Wife, a collection which inverts gender roles to celebrate female characters and display the injustice of men’s generalizations. This poem inverts the gender roles in the biblical story of the arrival of the Magi for Jesus’s birth…

Carol Ann DuffyGenderPoetry3 Pages

An Assessment of George Hilbert’s, Love and Carol Ann Duffy’s, Valentine

I am going to talk about two different kinds of love: mature love and religious love. I will compare Love (III) by George Hilbert (religious) and Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy (mature) and show the contrasts and trends in both. These two poems have distinct…

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Men, Women, and Representation in Duffy’s ‘The Worlds Wife’.

Carol Ann Duffy wrote ‘The World’s Wife’ in order to scrutinize the representation of both men and women, inspired by her strong feminist views — reconstructing, for example, many of the ‘voiceless women’ from throughout history. As Duffy expressed it; ‘like sand and the oyster…

Carol Ann DuffyPoetry3 Pages

Representations of Betrayal in ‘Adultery’ and ‘Disgrace’

Duffy’s poems, Adultery and Disgrace, portray the theme of betrayal in a number of different ways. Both show that betrayal is destructive and deadly to relationships, however, different diverse, including sibilance and oxymorons, are used across the two poems to portray this. It is possible…

Carol Ann DuffyPoetry2 Pages

Memory and Retrospection in Duffy’s Poetry

In both “Before You Were Mine” and “Brothers,” Carol Ann Duffy uses descriptions of memory as a means of re-living past family life. Throughout “Before You Were Mine,” Duffy writes about her mother, and imagines her life before motherhood. This poem is designed as Duffy’s…

Carol Ann DuffyPoetry2 Pages

Feminist Criticism and “Mrs Midas”

‘Mrs Midas’ is a revisionist version of the King Midas story told from the female perspective: traditionally, this ancient Greek myth was about a man who could turn everything to gold with a touch. This poem explores the sadness Mrs Midas feels in regards to…

Carol Ann DuffyFeminismPoetry2 Pages

Comparing Presentations of Love in “Havisham” and “Valentine”

Carol Ann Duffy’s love poems are often riddled with oxymoronic statements, which affirm the changing nature of love and how it is perceived in different relationships and in different periods of time and life. “Valentine” and “Havisham” are two poems which share similar proposals of…

Carol Ann DuffyHavishamPoetryRelationship2 Pages

A Comparison of Before You Were Mine and Pluto

In both Before You Were Mine and Pluto, Duffy uses characters to present different viewpoints of the past and present. In Before You Were Mine, the past is seen to be tangible and physical as the character of the narrator’s mother is heavily described, whereas…

Carol Ann DuffyPoetry2 Pages