pre 1914 poetry carol ann duffy

Carol Ann Duffy's 'Queen Kong [From the world's wife, 1998]', is the feminine version of the American blockbuster movie king Kong, where a giant gorilla kidnaps a beautiful model whom he is fond of and climbs the empire state building with. However, Duffy's version has switched up the roles, where the gorilla is now a woman, and the man who she kidnaps is referred to as 'the little man' who she is very much in love with. In comparison to my second poem, 'To his Coy Mistress' [1650] by Andrew Marvell, the main theme is the opposite of love, where a man is lusting for his 'coy mistress', and presents an argument for why she should let him have her, opposed to traditional values which were held in that era. It describes how one woman's chastity is so important to her, that she wont give in to his seduction techniques.
Queen Kong is set in New York and uses places of familiarity such as the Brooklyn Bridge, Bloomingdales and things associated with New York such as yellow taxi cabs. Duffy starts the poem off with 'I', in the first hand describing the gorillas time in New York in the first stanza. In comparison to 'His Coy Mistress', the first line of the poem 'Had we but world enough and time..', starts off presenting a logical argument of what the man in the poem could offer. However, the first word 'Had', could be changed for 'If', as this seems more appropriate due to the fact that if his love is a true love, why must there be arguments or logical reasoning? The second stanza of Duffy's poem moves away from the location of Manhattan, and focuses on how the female gorilla and the 'little man' first met; at the island where the 'little man' is directing a prize-winning film in which the gorilla stars. 'Scooped him up in my palm, And held his wriggling, shouting life till he calmed', shows a cliché referring to the common line 'holding him in the palm of my hand', where a woman is described as controlling her man. Although, in this line it is used in a different