Beautiful by Carol Ann Duffy
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- Created on: 08-09-16 12:38
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- Beautiful by Carol Ann Duffy
- Language
- Frequent internal rhymes in close proximity
- Communicates the relentlessness of the attention of the public lens/media photographers
- Disruptive effect undrmines any sense of regularity which creates a mocking tone presenting a sense of ugliness to the reader instead of the traditional and expected idea of beauty.
- Frequent internal rhymes in close proximity
- Form and Structure
- Helen of Troy
- Broadly trimeter with extended lines, recalling the meter used by Homer in the illiad
- Cleopatra
- Broadly pentameter with much variation, recalling Shakespeare's description of her in Anthony and Cleopatra
- Marilyn Monroe
- Pentameter, (perhaps linking back to Cleopatra who is mostly defined by her relationships with men like Marilyn herself) interspersed with other metres
- Princess Diana
- Broadly trimeter linking back to Helen (Both recipients of persecution due to their great beauty and their idolisation by the public
- Circle of rythmic stanzas Short-Long-Short
- Reflects the growth of media attention which then ends in their downfall reflected by the shorter stanzas at the end.
- Asyndetic listing
- Increases the speed of the poem making it seem frantic/a stream of consciousness sort of writing despite being well planned with an elaborate structure
- Enjambment
- "gawped/as she posed alone" Stanza 23-24
- By manipulating the rhythm of her poem, Duffy can establish a fast rhythm and carry on an idea in order to reinforce it in the mind of a reader
- Challenges the set meter making the poem seem disjointed and 'ugly'
- Increases the speed of the poem making it seem frantic/a stream of consciousness sort of writing despite being well planned with an elaborate structure
- Helen of Troy
- Resources
- TSR Mindmap on Feminine Gospels
- Youtube Video Analysis
- Download of powerpoint
- Guardian on Carol Ann Duffy
- Language and Structure in the Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy
- Feminine Gospels notes and activities @ZigZag Education, 2012
- Connections to other poems in Feminine Gospels
- Explores the way femininity/ women are mistreated by society/the world
- The Map-Woman
- The main character can be termed a goddess/has cosmic qualities
- The Long queen
- History
- Explores the idea of women's involvement throughout history
- History
- Sub
- Female Identity as something ancient that is transmitted through time
- The Long Queen
- "The Long Queen couldn't die"
- Anon
- "...she passed on her pen like a baton down through the years"
- Beautiful
- "She never aged"
- The Light Gatherer
- "Like a jeweled cave... opening out at the end of a tunnel of years"
- The Long Queen
- Explores the way femininity/ women are mistreated by society/the world
- Language
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