The Sunday Poem: If I Was DeadCarol Ann Duffy
Valentineby 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 will make your reflection a wobbling photo of grief. ...
Carol Ann Duffy Poems Stuffedby Carol Ann Duffy I put two yellow peepers in an owl. Wow. I fix the grin of Crocodile. Spiv. I sew the slither of an eel. I jerk, kick-start, the back hooves of a mule. Wild. I hold the red rag to a bull. Mad. I spread the feathers of a g...
The title of Carol Ann Duffy's poem refers to a sea nymph from Greek mythology who is forced to marry a mortal man, Peleus, against her will. In the poem, Thetis describes her attempts to escape Peleus's grasp by transforming herself into a series of animals and natural elements. She ...
“Mrs Midas” is a poem written by the contemporary Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy, the former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. The poemalludesto the Greek myth of King Midas, who was granted a wish to have everything he touched turn to gold. The poem, however, tells this well-kno...
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...
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’
Carol Ann Duffy's gorgeously illustrated Christmas poem for 2012. In her own inimitable style, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy retells the story of King Wenceslas and his sumptuous Feast of St. Stephen. CA Duffy,CA Duffy 被引量: 1发表: 2012年 "First Christmas" (poem) Carol Ann Duffy's go...
Mrs. MidasbyCarol Ann Duffy This contemporary piece of poetry is eleven stanzas long. They are all six lines long, making them sextets. The poem is also adramatic monologue, one of many published inThe World’s Wife.The stanzas useinternal rhymes, meaning that there are rhymes within the ...
Copyright Writing about poems AIM: to analyse ‘Last Night I saw the City…’ by Andrew Fusek Peters Point, Evidence, Explore. They work hand-in-hand. Storm on the Island by Seamus Heaney The boy and girl meet at a party.