Carol Ann Duffy
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- Carol Ann Duffy - Feminine Gospels
- context
- 'Feminine Gospels'
- giving a voice to the voiceless
- feminine truths
- celebrates and criticizes women
- celebrates women and shows their struggle
- gospel= description of life, death and the resurection of Jesus of Nazareth
- feminism = everyone is equal
- Carol Ann Duffy's Life
- born: 23/12/55 Glasgow England
- has one daughter called Ella, born in 1995
- had a huge impact on the personal poems
- became a lecturer in poetry at Manchester Met in 1996
- her work
- her talent was recognized from a young age
- the death of one of her teachers really sparked her career as she wrote a poem in her honour
- her career truly started at 15 when her work was sent off and praised for its brilliance
- her work was also inspired heavily by Adrian Henri (who was 25 years older than her)
- appointed first female poet laureate 1st may 2009
- a poet laureate is an eminent poet appointed as a member of the British royal household
- 'Feminine Gospels'
- The Collection
- Tall Tales
- The Long Queen
- The Map Woman
- Beautiful
- The Diet
- The Woman Who Shopped
- Work
- Tall
- Loud
- History
- Sub
- The Virgins Memo
- Anon
- Epic Poem- The Laughter Of Stafford Girls High
- Personal Poems
- A Dreaming Week
- White Writing
- Gambler
- The Light gatherer
- The Cord
- Wish
- North-West
- Death and the moon
- Tall Tales
- critics
- Bernard O'keefe on Duffy's use of language to create distance
- 'Duffy's concern with the duplicitous nature of language is matched by a concern for the way language can alienate, creating a sense of otherness and distance.'
- Calvin Tomkins on Duffy's aims of comunication
- 'with a lot of artists, the mystique is to baffle their readership. she never does that. her aim is to communicate
- Lavina Greenlaw on Duffy's interests of language and form
- 'she was the first poet to push language and form, their limits and tensions, to articulate that bankrupt and dislocated era.'
- Micheal Woods on Duffy's views of time
- 'Duffy's poems explore how time is inevitably cruel and takes things away from us.'
- Allen on duffy trying to inform the readers on the history of women
- 'to inform the reader of the changing social and historical atmosphere of the society.'
- Reese Jones on the complexity of duffy's seemingly simplistic writing styles
- 'the apparent simplicity of her work, however, does not prevent Duffy from addressing complex philosophical issues about the function of language and the construction of the self.'
- 'strong femenist edge' -poetry foundation
- 'examines love in many forms.' - Adam O'riordan
- 'she writes in everyday, conversational language.' - British council
- 'moves beyond 'a straight forward feminist poetry' and shows ' the difficulty that patriarchy presents to both men and women.' -deryn Rees-Jones
- 'challenges and alters power relationships by making women both the subject and object of love poems.' -Eaven Boland
- 'use of domestic everyday language.' - Deryn Rees-Jones
- 'exploration of the deepest recess of human emotion, both joy and pain.' - Elizabeth O'Riley
- 'intergration of contemporary culture.' -David Kennedy
- Bernard O'keefe on Duffy's use of language to create distance
- AO'S
- AO1
- logical and clear argument
- AO2
- authors method
- AO3
- context
- AO4
- reference to other texts
- sentences
- typicality of contemporary literature
- 21st century poetry
- typical of feminist literature, she challenges patriarchy
- poems with ambiguous ending= influenced by post modernism
- themes of the time
- war and legacies of war
- personal and social identities
- changing morality and social structure
- gender, class, race and ethnicity
- imperialism, post imperialism and nationalism
- AO5
- link to question
- AO1
- context
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