Warming Her Pearls
- Created by: laurenbacon12345
- Created on: 13-05-17 15:03
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- Six quatrains.
- Poem moves from morning to night.
- Modern poem.
- She is as much property as the pearls are.
- Female control of the female- unusual to us.
- Written from maid's perspective.
- Social class divides them.
- Voice of the lower class female- unusual.
- Unrequited love poem- forbidden.
- No rhyme- no harmony between the mistress and maid.
- The reader is her confidante.
- The speaker's job depends on the love being repressed
- "My mistress."- Duffy is subverting the word that meant the controlled female to the controlling female.
- We dont know how the mistress feels.- limitation.
- The mistress is the object of desire.
- "Bids."- imperative.
- "I"-…
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