Carol Ann Duffy - Anne Hathaway

• Anne Hathaway was the wife of William Shakespeare.
• When Shakespeare died he left the second best bed to his wife in his will.

• Lexicon (vocab) not obviously anachronistic
• Double meanings
• Sonnet
• Iambic pentametre
• Metaphors
• Alliteration

• L3 - 'where he would dive for pearls'
• L7 - 'a verb dancing in the centre of a noun'
• L11-12 - 'our guests dozed on, dribbling their prose'
• L12 - 'My living laughing love'

Setting - Bedroom - the second best bed.

Themes - Love, voice.

• Love - Havisham, Before you were mine, Mother, Homecoming, On my first Sonne, Sonnet 130, My last duchess.
• Voice - Havisham, Kid, My last duchess, The laboratory