Beautiful (Feminine Gospels)
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- Created on: 26-09-16 18:52
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- 'Beautiful'
- References the most beautiful women in history
- Beauty connects all four women
- Same woman incarnated?
- Helen of Troy
- Stanza 1
- Line 4
- Asyndetic list of ways to say 'beautiful'
- Stanza 8
- Line 1
- Imbalance of power
- Maid and mistress relationship
- Sisterhood/ closest friend
- Other kind of love?
- Doesn't objectify her
- Line 1
- Stanza 8
- Asyndetic list of ways to say 'beautiful'
- Line 4
- Stanza 2
- Line 4
- 'Be mine' - objectification
- Not in love with her, in love with her physical appearance
- Line 6
- She married Menelaus, every man swore an oath of allegiance
- Line 9
- Contrast horrible smelling breath at end of poem
- Bad influence of media pressures
- Contrast horrible smelling breath at end of poem
- Line 10
- Body famous, mind isn't
- Line 4
- Stanza 3
- Line 1
- Narrative/ life story
- Taken by Paris, prince of Troy
- Line 4
- reduces myth to a soap opera by domesticating and normalising it
- Line 1
- Stanza 4
- Line 4
- Every man was devoted to her
- Married to everyone ( like the Long Queen)
- All sailors wanted to follow her
- Every man was devoted to her
- Line 5
- Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Myth, they've never seen her ( Long Queen)
- Line 9
- Women are enchantresses
- Line 12
- Princess link to Diana
- Line 13
- Duffy uses modern/ contemporary terms to suggest that nothing has changed
- Link - 'The Long Queen' and the juxtaposition of modern clothes
- Duffy uses modern/ contemporary terms to suggest that nothing has changed
- Line 4
- Stanza 5
- Line 1
- Private an public persona fused togther
- Line 1
- Stanza 6
- Line 1
- Mythical perspectives
- Line 8
- Phallic imagery
- Line 1
- Stanza 7
- Line 1
- She's a myth
- Narrative creates a rumour
- Line 2
- To get free movement, women had to disguise themselves as men
- Line 4
- 'moon' = female fertility imagery
- Line 1
- Stanza 9
- Line 2
- Bird like imagery
- Suggests entrapment
- Fragility of birds
- Line 2
- Stanza 1
- Cleopatra
- Stanza 1
- Line 6
- First meeting with Caesar
- Line 8
- Colloquial
- Referring to people in modern terms
- Literally 'crazy for her'
- Idiomatic
- Line 6
- Stanza 2
- Line 3
- List *
- Richest woman in the ancient world
- Almost ladette type
- Tough/ powerful figure
- Almost ladette type
- Line 3
- Stanza 4
- Line 1
- Oxymoronic
- Tough/ powerful figure
- Almost ladette type
- Line 2
- Playing/ gambling with their lives
- Line 5
- Power over men
- Line 12
- Ladette
- Changed personality to fit different people
- List *
- Line 1
- Stanza 5
- Line 7
- Taboo/ shocking language
- Reduced to act like men to gain respect and freedom (link 'dressed as a boy)
- Less attractive if more masculine
- Line 7
- Stanza 1
- Marilyn Monroe
- Stanza 1
- Line 4
- Too tired to work
- Forced = unhappy
- Manufactured by men, for men
- Too tired to work
- Line 8
- End - stopped
- Abrupt end to life
- Story line of life on camera
- Short sentences
- End - stopped
- Line 4
- Stanza 2
- Line 1
- Repetition, emphasis on pushing her further towards complete change
- Start to see behind the scenes
- Products that go into making her
- Materialism
- Line 2
- Greater reward for greater change?
- Women are diminished by possessions
- Line 3
- Bankers are of a high status
- Its not just people of a lower status who are changing her
- Bankers are of a high status
- Line 7
- Subtle/ classy introduction of alcohol to her life
- Constant mention of 'rich' materials
- Line 1
- Stanza 3
- Line 1
- 'Dumb blonde' = stereotype dumb blonde.
- End - stopped
- Sacrifice/ consequence of beauty
- Link ' tough blonde'
- Myth vs reality
- Line 3
- Hide behind make up
- Line 4
- List of three
- Re-introducing check list of things needed for a successful film career
- Line 9
- Myth - killed by President, seductive singing gave too much about affair
- Line 1
- Stanza 1
- Princess Diana
- Goddess of hunting
- Ironic as she was hunted
- Important to be a virgin
- Used by establishment
- Stanza 1
- Line 1
- What good is beauty now?
- Entrapment
- Line 4
- 'Dumb blonde' stereotype - link to 'tough beauty'
- Direct address
- Line 1
- Stanza 2
- Line 1
- People were mesmerised by her normality and beauty
- Line 3
- Enchantress
- Put her on a pedistool
- Invested hope in her
- Enchantress
- Line 4
- Appearance vs reality
- Line 7
- Line 1
- Stanza 3
- Line 2
- Thought to be anorexic
- Puppeteering reference
- Line 2
- Stanza 4
- Lines 1/2
- Everything stage managed
- Used the media to tell the world her opinion of Charles
- Convinced they were out to get her
- Lines 1/2
- Stanza 5
- used to make money
- Final line
- People responded to her abuse
- Unhappy/ arranged marriage
- media/ attention killed her
- Goddess of hunting
- Stanza 4
- Line 1
- Longer lines
- More of a narrative
- Line 2
- Tired, got worse at acting
- Constantly on screen / over worked
- Daily routine
- Broring life
- Abused by industry
- Constant repetition
- 'Beautiful'
- References the most beautiful women in history
- Beauty connects all four women
- Same woman incarnated?
- Helen of Troy
- Stanza 1
- Line 4
- Asyndetic list of ways to say 'beautiful'
- Stanza 8
- Line 1
- Imbalance of power
- Maid and mistress relationship
- Sisterhood/ closest friend
- Other kind of love?
- Doesn't objectify her
- Line 1
- Stanza 8
- Asyndetic list of ways to say 'beautiful'
- Line 4
- Stanza 2
- Line 4
- 'Be mine' - objectification
- Not in love with her, in love with her physical appearance
- Line 6
- She married Menelaus, every man swore an oath of allegiance
- Line 9
- Contrast horrible smelling breath at end of poem
- Bad influence of media pressures
- Contrast horrible smelling breath at end of poem
- Line 10
- Body famous, mind isn't
- Line 4
- Stanza 3
- Line 1
- Narrative/ life story
- Taken by Paris, prince of Troy
- Line 4
- reduces myth to a soap opera by domesticating and normalising it
- Line 1
- Stanza 4
- Line 4
- Every man was devoted to her
- Married to everyone ( like the Long Queen)
- All sailors wanted to follow her
- Every man was devoted to her
- Line 5
- Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Myth, they've never seen her ( Long Queen)
- Line 9
- Women are enchantresses
- Line 12
- Princess link to Diana
- Line 13
- Duffy uses modern/ contemporary terms to suggest that nothing has changed
- Link - 'The Long Queen' and the juxtaposition of modern clothes
- Duffy uses modern/ contemporary terms to suggest that nothing has changed
- Line 4
- Stanza 5
- Line 1
- Private an public persona fused togther
- Line 1
- Stanza 6
- Line 1
- Mythical perspectives
- Line 8
- Phallic imagery
- Line 1
- Stanza 7
- Line 1
- She's a myth
- Narrative creates a rumour
- Line 2
- To get free movement, women had to disguise themselves as men
- Line 4
- 'moon' = female fertility imagery
- Line 1
- Stanza 9
- Line 2
- Bird like imagery
- Suggests entrapment
- Fragility of birds
- Line 2
- Stanza 1
- Cleopatra
- Stanza 1
- Line 6
- First meeting with Caesar
- Line 8
- Colloquial
- Referring to people in modern terms
- Literally 'crazy for her'
- Idiomatic
- Line 6
- Stanza 2
- Line 3
- List *
- Richest woman in the ancient world
- Line 3
- Stanza 4
- Line 1
- Oxymoronic
- Line 2
- Playing/ gambling with their lives
- Line 5
- Power over men
- Line 12
- Ladette
- Changed personality to fit different people
- List *
- Line 1
- Stanza 5
- Line 7
- Taboo/ shocking language
- Reduced to act like men to gain respect and freedom (link 'dressed as a boy)
- Less attractive if more masculine
- Line 7
- Stanza 1
- Marilyn Monroe
- Stanza 1
- Line 4
- Too tired to work
- Forced = unhappy
- Manufactured by men, for men
- Too tired to work
- Line 8
- End - stopped
- Abrupt end to life
- Story line of life on camera
- Short sentences
- End - stopped
- Line 4
- Stanza 2
- Line 1
- Repetition, emphasis on pushing her further towards complete change
- Start to see behind the scenes
- Products that go into making her
- Materialism
- Line 2
- Greater reward for greater change?
- Women are diminished by possessions
- Line 3
- Bankers are of a high status
- Its not just people of a lower status who are changing her
- Bankers are of a high status
- Line 7
- Subtle/ classy introduction of alcohol to her life
- Constant mention of 'rich' materials
- Line 1
- Stanza 3
- Line 1
- 'Dumb blonde' = stereotype dumb blonde.
- End - stopped
- Sacrifice/ consequence of beauty
- Link ' tough blonde'
- Myth vs reality
- Line 3
- Hide behind make up
- Line 4
- List of three
- Re-introducing check list of things needed for a successful film career
- Line 9
- Myth - killed by President, seductive singing gave too much about affair
- Line 1
- Stanza 1
- Princess Diana
- Goddess of hunting
- Ironic as she was hunted
- Important to be a virgin
- Used by establishment
- Stanza 1
- Line 1
- What good is beauty now?
- Entrapment
- Line 4
- 'Dumb blonde' stereotype - link to 'tough beauty'
- Direct address
- Line 1
- Stanza 2
- Line 1
- People were mesmerised by her normality and beauty
- Line 3
- Enchantress
- Put her on a pedistool
- Invested hope in her
- Enchantress
- Line 4
- Appearance vs reality
- Line 7
- Line 1
- Stanza 3
- Line 2
- Thought to be anorexic
- Puppeteering reference
- Line 2
- Stanza 4
- Lines 1/2
- Everything stage managed
- Used the media to tell the world her opinion of Charles
- Convinced they were out to get her
- Lines 1/2
- Stanza 5
- used to make money
- Final line
- People responded to her abuse
- Unhappy/ arranged marriage
- media/ attention killed her
- Goddess of hunting
- Line 3
- Abrupt end
- Couldn't stop being the person that society made her
- legend/ legacy
- Line 8
- Only natural reference
- Only appreciated for herself after her death
- Take control of death
- Line 1
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