Feminine Gospels - Carol Ann Duffy

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  • Feminine Gospels by Carol Ann Duffy
    • The Map Woman
      • Theme of past and change
        • LINK: Work
        • LINK: Beautiful
      • Defined by her experience and her hometown
      • Conceit - becoming a map
    • Loud
      • The woman's place in society prevents her vice from escaping until it has to explode
      • Change and trans. - her voice becomes louder before it carries her away
      • Explosive Imagery: Suggests nobody expects a woman to speak up so vehemently
    • The Woman Who Shopped
      • enjambment and lists - Shows the relentlessnes-s of her addiction
        • LINK: The Diet
      • Religious Connotations - First purchase is an apple, Garden of Eden: catalyst of her spending
        • LINK: Tall
      • Consumerism in modern society
      • Story like fairy tale
        • LINK: Tall
    • The Diet
      • Affect of the Media upon women dieting
      • Fast pace (enjambment, lists etc.) suggests her loosing control
      • Conceit of Alice in Wonderland, decreasing in size
      • Common social attitude, women are to take up as little space as possible
        • LINK: Tall
      • Final line of stanzas share pentameter -  show the decent into the rabbit hole of anorexia
    • Beautiful
      • Women become isolated as a result of their beauty
      • Objectification - The women become defined by their bodies and their beauty
      • Chronology of women (Helen of Troy, Cleopatra, Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana) the issue runs throughout history
    • Tall
      • Religious Imagery - The figure becomes worshiped and God like
      • Isolation of women
      • The woman's progressive height suggestive of Duffy's poetic carrer
      • Women's position in society
    • Work
      • Consumerism
        • LINK: The Woman Who Shopped
      • Theme of women's bodies - She works herself into the grave and still works after
      • Technological advances suggest progression of history - although the same issue

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