answer carol ann duffy
- Created by: Hannah Jeffery
- Created on: 20-05-13 17:14
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- Answer
- what the poem is about
- is about unconditional love
- tittle
- implies a question
- eg 'will you marry me' ' will you love me forever'
- creates the idea of an insecurity on behalf of the lover
- eg 'will you marry me' ' will you love me forever'
- ambiguous
- implies a question
- earth
- stone
- cold and unresponsive
- an image of un-feeling
- fossil
- kiss is dead
- metaphor
- lifeless no passion
- contrast to a usual expectation of a kiss
- persona loves there lover even if they were physically repulsive and passionless
- ' your long legs cold as rivers locked in ice '
- harsh constants sounds
- un- open to love
- stone
- structure
- every stanza begins and end with a conditional. and possessive pronouns dominate the start of the other four lines . and each stanza ends with an affirmation 'yes. yes'
- a recurring pattern suggests the love is continuous and is impossible to change
- regular sextets
- creates a scene of regularity
- unchanging like the persona's love
- creates a scene of regularity
- every stanza begins and end with a conditional. and possessive pronouns dominate the start of the other four lines . and each stanza ends with an affirmation 'yes. yes'
- second person
- addressed to persona loved one
- fire
- Greek mythology m. was a monster with living snakes as hair which cold turn people to stone
- sibilance 'Medusa hissing'
- threatening
- snake like
- dangerous
- methaphor for if she was evil
- sibilance 'Medusa hissing'
- passionate, fierce dangerous, quick tempered
- ' a red- hot poker in your throat'
- her words could hurt
- 'small coal glowing in your heart
- un-capable of love
- 'your fingers burning pungent brands on flesh'
- even if you hurt me, aliteration hard consonant sounds
- Greek mythology m. was a monster with living snakes as hair which cold turn people to stone
- water
- 'roaring, foaming waterfall'
- overpowering dominating
- 'your arms a whirlpool'
- controlling trapped in a relsionship
- 'breast a deep dark lake nursing the downed'
- harsh consonant sounds
- bleak image linking to the idea of death, the relationship is suffocating
- 'nursing the drowned'- the lover wants her dead, she'll only love her once she's dead
- the lover wants to be powerful and Duffy is reduced to powerless
- the writer is saying i have no power, you have control over me. love in unconditional even if it makes the persona weak
- 'mouth an ocean
- deep intense
- 'roaring, foaming waterfall'
- air
- 'empty'
- nothingness, no sense of feeling, lack in emotional feelings
- ' your movements sudden'
- un-predictable
- 'only breeze'
- empty gives the impression that the lover is completely with drawn. no substance
- recuring image of nothingness says that even if this love was incomplete, unrequainted
- even though the love isnt enough the answer is still yes
- 'empty'
- links lover to the four elements; earth, fire, water and air
- even if it meant suffering her life she would still say yes
- the poem is ambiguous
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- what the poem is about
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