Feminine Gospels - Carol Ann Duffy
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- Created on: 22-03-17 18:36
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- Feminine Gospels by Carol Ann Duffy
- The Map Woman
- Theme of past and change
- LINK: Work
- LINK: Beautiful
- Defined by her experience and her hometown
- Conceit - becoming a map
- Theme of past and change
- Loud
- The woman's place in society prevents her vice from escaping until it has to explode
- Change and trans. - her voice becomes louder before it carries her away
- Explosive Imagery: Suggests nobody expects a woman to speak up so vehemently
- The Woman Who Shopped
- enjambment and lists - Shows the relentlessnes-s of her addiction
- LINK: The Diet
- Religious Connotations - First purchase is an apple, Garden of Eden: catalyst of her spending
- LINK: Tall
- Consumerism in modern society
- Story like fairy tale
- LINK: Tall
- enjambment and lists - Shows the relentlessnes-s of her addiction
- The Diet
- Affect of the Media upon women dieting
- Fast pace (enjambment, lists etc.) suggests her loosing control
- Conceit of Alice in Wonderland, decreasing in size
- Common social attitude, women are to take up as little space as possible
- LINK: Tall
- Final line of stanzas share pentameter - show the decent into the rabbit hole of anorexia
- Beautiful
- Women become isolated as a result of their beauty
- Objectification - The women become defined by their bodies and their beauty
- Chronology of women (Helen of Troy, Cleopatra, Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana) the issue runs throughout history
- Tall
- Religious Imagery - The figure becomes worshiped and God like
- Isolation of women
- The woman's progressive height suggestive of Duffy's poetic carrer
- Women's position in society
- Work
- Consumerism
- LINK: The Woman Who Shopped
- Theme of women's bodies - She works herself into the grave and still works after
- Technological advances suggest progression of history - although the same issue
- Consumerism
- The Map Woman
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