The two Duffy poems I have chosen to compare the way she presents the speaker's relationship with the person she is speaking to are 'Havisham' and 'Elvis' Twin Sister'. 'Havisham' is in a form of a monologue.

She uses words to describe her bitter and angry tone such as ‘bastard’, ‘strangle’, ‘Nooooo’ and also ‘bang’. Duffy has used these words to make the readers aware of the anger that is going through this character. Duffy gives us an impression that the character does not like how she looks as she describes herself as a ‘spinster’ which is a female version of a bachelor. However if one calls a women a spinster it is in derogatory term meaning it is very offensive. She also states ‘ropes on the back of my hands I could strangle with’. This quote has two metaphors, one of them meaning rope as in two strangle him or rope on the back of my hands meaning veins of an old women.  Miss Havisham is aware of her own stink because she does not ever change her clothes or wash. She stays in bed and screams in denial. At other times she looks and asks herself “who did this” to her? She sometimes dreams almost tenderly or erotically of her lost lover, but when she wakes the hatred and anger return. Thinking of how she “stabbed at the wedding cake” she now wants to work out her revenge on a “male corpse”, most probably that of her lover. The poem is written in four stanzas which are unrhymed. Many of the lines run on, and the effect is like normal speech. The poet uses many adjectives of colour for example ‘green’, ‘puce’, ‘white’ and ‘red’ and lists parts of the body ‘eyes’, ‘hands’, ‘tongue’, ‘mouth’, ‘ear’ and ‘face’. Sometimes the meaning is clear, but other lines are more open -and there are hints of violence in ‘strangle’, ‘bite’, ‘bang’ and “stabbed”. It is not clear what exactly Miss Havisham would like to do on her “long slow honeymoon”, but we can be sure that it is not pleasant.    Elvis Presley did not have a twin sister in reality but the sister whom Duffy imagines for him is different from Madonna as she states ‘Elvis is alive and she’s female’. Instead she is modest and simple, though with a cheerful character, rather like Elvis's public character. The poem plays on the humorous difference between the life, manners and description of the nun, and the richness of rock and roll. For example, ‘Elvis Presley’s twin sister’ swings her hips in the same way as Elvis, though perhaps without the same effect, she also has the ‘blue suede’ shoes which Elvis wrote a song on and also performed . The form of the poem is quite regular as it contains five line stanzas with occasional rhymes. Sometimes these are quite amusing as when Duffy uses the Southern sound of “y'all” to rhyme with “soul” and “rock and roll”. The references to the song lyrics give it an air of genuineness.    The similarities of the two poems ‘Havisham’ and ‘Elvis’ Twin Sister’ that they are both written in the first person and also the difference between the two poems is that Carol Ann Duffy chose to write ‘Havisham’ in monologue which gives the readers the effect that the poem does not really have a feel to it and plain and simple. Where as Duffy has presented ‘Elvis’ Twin Sister’ in stanzas which makes it more interesting for the readers as it also contains occasional rhymes such as ‘y’all’ rhyming with ‘soul’ and ‘rock and roll’. ‘Havisham does not have any rhymes.