Essay The Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy The poem is written in the first person. Duffy gives her lover an onion in which represents St Valentines Day. The onion is a gift rather than a card or a rose‚ Duffy uses this unusual gift but in fact it’s a statement of love. The onion a (metaphor) is a strong ugly vegetable‚ not only does it show love but can show the inner beauty with in the onion itself. There are good points and bad points in love however there are consequences of what love can
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Écriture féminine‚ literally "women’s writing‚"[1] more closely‚ the writing of the female body and female disparity in language and text‚[2] is a strain of feminist literary theory that originated in France in the early 1970s and included foundational theorists such as Hélène Cixous‚ Monique Wittig‚ Luce Irigaray‚[3] Chantal Chawaf‚[4][5] and Julia Kristeva‚[6][7] and also other writers like psychoanalytical theorist Bracha Ettinger‚[8][9] who joined this field in the early 1990s.[10] Generally
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treatment of love in Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Valentine’. Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Valentine’ ultimately depicts a highly cynical attitude towards love and conventional gestures of affection. The poem uses traditional images of valentine as a starting point‚ before showing how an onion is much more true to the nature of love. An extended metaphor of the onion is then used to depict Duffy’s underlying implication that love can be destructive on many different levels. One of the main ways in which Duffy conveys this
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What techniques has Carol Ann Duffy used in her poetry to make old stories and fables relevant to modern audiences? Comment on upon the use of language‚ imagery and structure. ’Mrs. Faust’ is written in the casual‚ contemporary style which suits its setting and adds fittingly to the collection of ’The Worlds Wife’. In this collection most poems explore the feminist principles or the modern state of them. This poem however‚ introduces a new issue to the collection; the materialistic nature of
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the text-as into the world and into history-by her own movement.” (Cixous) So says Helene Cixous in her seminal essay “The Laugh of the Medusa.” This is‚ essentially‚ the basis of Helene Cixous’s notion of “Écriture Féminine.” The basis behind this notion of Écriture Féminine stems from the fact that‚ at the particular point in time in which Helene Cixous was composing this text (and‚ to an extent‚ this holds true in present times) the field of authorship was‚ predominantly‚ dominated by‚
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In Carol Ann Duffy’s poem‚ ‘education for leisure’ and Sheenagh Pugh’s‚ ‘she was nineteen and she was bored’‚ both poets look on modern society in a negative way. Both poems look at the themes of suffering and unhappiness when cast out from society.which are two states that are inextricably linkable. Unhappiness can come as a result of suffering‚ or the need to make others suffer can come from pure unhappiness. Duffy and Pugh both make these distinctions in their work‚ and are able to engage the
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The Feminine Mystique‚ a novel written in 1963 by Betty Friedan‚ provided a strong wake up call for women in America about a problem that was negatively impacting them‚ but not spoken of. After women fought so hard in the 1930’s for the right to vote and equality with men in many areas‚ the author describes how changes in attitude after World War II were convincing women that their most important role is to get married‚ have kids and take care of the home. However‚ these women then felt an emptiness
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World’s Wife’ is a collection of poems written by Carol Ann Duffy in which the writer takes on the persona of a range of characters; these being real‚ fictional‚ mythical and biblical. The wives in the collection may be of long suffering‚ but they are not victims. Duffy tackles controversial issues and her women are by no means victorious‚ but she shows the women as they are; not the stereotypical feministic view but angry‚ sardonic‚ impatient women. Duffy seeks to highlight the ways in which women were
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How does Carol Ann Duffy Present Different Feelings about Love in “Hour” and “Quick Draw” Caroline Ann Duffy had made it a common opinion in her writing that she believes love is a crawl thing. However in both “Hour” and “Quick Draw”‚ she talks about love in an appreciative way. Although in the two poems‚ it has two very different circumstances in a relationship. Similarly both poems‚ is themed around a relationship‚ however the differences being that Hour describes the situation with a vast amount
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provoked a second wave. The catalyst to mainstream feminism in the 1960’s through 1970’s was Betty Friedan’s book‚The Feminine Mystique. Women’s right activist and writer‚ Betty Friedan‚ a leading figure in the Feminist movement. Her book ‚The Feminine Mystique‚ was a major influence in the second wave of Feminism because it voiced what so many women lacked to say; they wanted more. The Feminine Mystique was published in 1963 and over two million copies were sold
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