Beautifulby Carol Ann Duffy explores the physical and mental damage that can come from beauty. Duffy traces four women: Helen of Troy, Cleopatra, Marilyn Monroe, and Princess Dianna. The poet draws upon the experiences of these people to explore how males exploit and destroy them. Although in ...
This is a wonderful Carol Ann Duffy poem that alludes to many of the themes seen in her better-known poems. In this text, she speaks about the complexities of studying a historical figure and the ways it can play on one's emotions. ...
A reading and gloss of Duffy’s poem ‘The Love Poem’ appeared in Carol Ann Duffy’s 2005 collection Rapture. It’s a love poem about love poetry, which uses other poets’ words to create a collage. You can read ‘The Love Poem’ here; in this post we’
Annann 系统标签: duffyvalentinecarolpoemonionlove ‘Valentine’ by Carol Ann Duffy Not a red rose or a satin heart. I give you an onion. It is a moon wrapped in brown paper. It promises light like the careful undressing of love. Here. It will blind you with tears like a lover. It ...
by Carol Ann DuffyThe heron’s the look of the river. The moon’s the look of the night. The sky’s the look of forever. Snow is the look of white. The bees are the look of the honey. The wasp is the look of pain. The clown is the look of funny. ...
The aim of this assignment is to introduce the reader to the vast field of Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalysis and give an example of its practical application by psychoanalytically interpreting Carol Ann Duffy’s “Psychopath”.Written for a university course in “Applying Cultural Theory”, it will...
‘My Country; A Work in Progress’ written and arranged by the poet Carol Ann Duffy is a verbatim play that uses interviews conducted with people from various regions in England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland to explore the causes of the EU referendum result. With the recent rise of...