Discuss 'Queen Kong' By Carol Ann Duffy
Essay One Queen Kong 'Discuss a poem of your choice from 'The World's Wife'. Queen Kong, in relation to the monstrous gorilla King Kong is a somewhat peculiar character that thinks of herself as a human being. Although she is an enormous, terrifying animal, she shows love, affection and passion for a male human. Her devoted nature is a complete contrast to her appearance. Her temperament is undeniably opposite to King Kong, who acted aggressively and with hate towards humans. She thinks of herself as quite normal, and falls in love with a male human. The difference in species does not alter her affection; in fact I'm not sure she even notices. She is so wrapped up in devotion and love for this man, nothing else matters to her. The first few stanzas of the poem lead you to believe that Queen Kong is not actually a gorilla, but a real person. 'Staying in 2 quiet hotels in the village, where people were used to strangers and more or less left you alone.' Obviously it would be impossible for a gorilla to comfortably stay in a hotel suite, but the way that Carol Ann Duffy portrays her character is that of a human. The first mention of her beloved is in a dominant way; almost the approach we are led to believe that men take over women, one of ownership and possession, 'My little man'. By using such a small, snappy sentence, Duffy emphasises the upper-hand she has over her man,
Compare the methods Armitage and Duffy use to convey their ideas about change in the poems you have read so far.
Catherine Gee 18/10/02 Compare the methods Armitage and Duffy use to convey their ideas about change in the poems you have read so far. Both Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Armitage use a range of methods in their exploration of the theme of change. Duffy's poems tend to be more personal although in her poems about change, such as 'Pluto' and 'The Captain of the 1964 Top of the Form Team' she writes in a male voice which then distances her from the speaker. Armitage writes more universal poems, few of which are written of personal experiences in the first person. Both write about change in a mostly negative manner, particularly seen in 'Pluto', 'The Captain of the 1964 Top of the Form Team' and 'Afterword. The use of form and structure contributes considerably to the exploration of the theme of change. It is used variably through their poetry. In 'Man with a Golf Ball Heart' by Armitage, he uses what could be a sonnet to express change. The poem has fourteen lines and at the sixth line begins with 'but' which signals change. It could therefore be a modernised petrarchan sonnet. This would be appropriate as one of the poem's themes is change and would be an original way to explore that theme. The poem is written in prose-like free verse as Armitage is telling a story of what happened when he opened up a golf ball and is then likening it the man's heart. By doing so he uses more
Duffy Published 'Mrs Midas' Several Years Before Its Inclusion in The Worlds Wife - To What Extent do you agree With the View That, In Terms of Subject Matter and Style, This poem is Key to the Whole Collection?
Duffy Published 'Mrs Midas' Several Years Before Its Inclusion in The Worlds Wife To What Extent do you agree With the View That, In Terms of Subject Matter and Style, This poem is Key to the Whole Collection? As 'Mrs Midas' was published several years before 'The Worlds Wife' was you may think that this poem may be the key to all the others within the collection as Duffy would have been able to build the collection on the base that 'Mrs Midas' set with its views on male weakness and female superiority. Indeed this poem has a lot of links to other poems through their different subject matters and also they have very similar uses of different styles and devices used in poetry. 'Mrs Midas' is about a woman who finds out that her husband has wished for everything he touches to be turned to gold as he was owed a favour by Apollo, who gave him this gift of turning everything to gold. However King Midas doesn't think about the consequences of his actions and it turns out that indeed everything he touches turns to gold and so he cannot eat because his food turns to gold. Mrs Midas becomes scared that he will turn her to gold and sends him to a she always wanted. This poem is about male weakness, the fact that he didn't think about his actions and how they affected other people but however cruel he was to her in her mind she always sticks with him even though he was
An appreciation of "Wasp's Nest" and how Rosenberg uses words to communicate themes in his poem and how the poem is made memorable.
Name: Akosua Mate Grade: 9a Subject: English Literature Project title: "Wasp's Nest" Project focus: An appreciation of "Wasp's Nest" and how Rosenberg uses words to communicate themes in his poem and how the poem is made memorable. The Wasp's Nest Conceptualize a world full of people that isolate and alienate you-a place where you don't count or make a difference. This is one of the major concerns in the Wasp's Nest. Rosenberg appeals to our intellect utilizing technical literary ingredients to spice up and flavour the poem. My project is an analysis of his use of words and phrases to communicate themes in his poem and to see how the poem has been made memorable. To me, the poem on its own is a metaphor portraying life and its elements of uncertainty and others. In line 1'' Two aerial tigers...'', the wasps are being referred to as ''aerial tigers'' because they do all their activities in the air (aerial). They are referred to as ''tigers' for two reasons. The main one being that they are ragingly ferocious and much undomesticated. The second one is describes their physical outward appearance as they are yellow with black stripes just like the tiger. The use of language here is very descriptive and this line being a metaphor aids the picture to be conceived on the mental canvas. Line 1 is memorable because it is quite unique the way one can find such descriptive to
Before you were mine was written by Carol Ann Duffy.
Before you were Mine Before you were mine was written by Carol Ann Duffy who writes about her mother before the poet was born after seeing a photo of her when she was a teenager. She is inspired to write the poem because she thinks her mother was happier then. She begins the poem by setting the scene and portraying her to be romantic and attractive, the poet dos this by comparing her to Marilyn Monroe in her 'polka-dot dress' that 'blows round your legs' There is internal rhyme in these quotes which was' probably used to emphasise the similarity of her mother to Marilyn Monroe. The idea of the poem being written in the present tense, and the use of onomatopoeia, 'fizzy' shows how the poet is trying to make her mother's past as real as possible. This word creates the imagery of champagne and therefore it might portray her bubbly character. The use of enjambment, 'I'm ten years away from the corner you laugh on with your pals...' may have been used to stress the importance of how long ago it was when her mother was a teenager. Carol Ann Duffy fantasises about her mother as she is imagined 'in the ballroom with the thousand eyes.' The thousand eyes could be the glitter balls in the room but could also be the thousand eyes of men admiring her mother. The poet creates a positive and bright atmosphere in the poem to emphasise how happy her mother must have been when she was a
Compare the way the characters of Salome and Anne Hathaway are presented in Carol Anne Duffy's poems.
Megan Field 11MJO October 04 CKE Compare the way the characters of Salome and Anne Hathaway are presented in Carol Anne Duffy's poems. Carol Anne Duffy wrote both Salome and Anne Hathaway. In this essay I am going to be comparing how the characters of Salome and Anne Hathaway are presented in Duffy's two poems. Duffy's intention as with all of her poems is to give historically famous women who were previously unheard a new voice. Both these poems are written in the women's view like a monologue, both deal with death and have a sexual content. Anne Hathaway is Shakespeare's wife. It is written in the style of a sonnet to celebrate her husband's work, Shakespeare wrote many sonnets. I can tell this because there is a rhyming couplet at the end, it is a fourteen line poem about love with a regular rhythm pattern of 10 syllables per line where the second syllable is stressed. It is therefore an iambic pentameter. It uses lots of heavy imagery written as metaphors and similes throughout the poem. "My lover's words were shooting stars which fell to Earth as kisses". In history we learn that Shakespeare in his will, left Anne the second best bed. Before reading this poem I thought she would have felt degraded, humiliated and upset about being left this bed. This poem showed me Anne's feelings from a completely different perspective. The poem is a reflective, celebration of
Comparing Head of English to R.E your poem and recent visit.
Gemma Lee Comparing Head of English to R.E your poem and recent visit The purpose for the head of English is to in some way give English teachers a bad name. Carol Ann Duffy is a visiting poet to an all girls school, at the school she finds that the head of English is unwelcoming and tries her best to make her feel small. She wants the audience to know the ordeal that she went through, so this is in some way to get revenge and to entertain the audience by showing what her version of a stereotypical English teacher is like. She is also mocking her, by over elaborating on her actions and the things she says. The purpose for R.E your poem and recent visit is a reply to the poem Head of English. Andrew Mayne is saying that it is unfair to give all English teachers a bad name, and tries to show through his writing what they are really like. He finds the poem offensive and so in return tries to offend Carol Ann Duffy in some way, by using the same style of mocking ness and over elaborating. His purpose to the audience is to show humour about the way in which he mocks carol Ann Duffy for her poem. Also, its purpose is to entertain and to prove a point to anyone who has read the poem head of English, so he is standing up and going against the views of Carol Ann Duffy. The attitudes and values of the head of English is that she doesn't like visitors coming into the school and
Compare the poems "On my first Sonne", "The Song of the Old Mother", and "The Affliction of Margaret" in the theme of death and grief.
Hyung-woo Cho English Compare the poems "On my first Sonne", "The Song of the Old Mother", and "The Affliction of Margaret" in the theme of death and grief. PARA1 on my first son The point of view, what is it about PARA2 the song of the old mother The point of view, what is it about PARA3 on my first sonne Structure, language, imagery PARA4 the affliction of Margaret Structure, language, imagery PARA5 on my first sonne Personal and poet's respond PARA6 the song of the old mother, the affliction of Margaret Personal and poet's respond The poem, "On my first Sonne" is the elegy that Ben Jonson wrote about the death of his first son, Benjamin. The writer shows his deep sentiment after such a cruel event happened to him. Te shows his grief and despair of a father using first person account because the death of his son was happened to the poet himself and he wants to convey what he feels directly to the audience. Compared to "On my first Sonne", the poem "The Song of the Old Mother", written by William Butler Yeats, is about an old woman complains that she always work hard and laments the idleness of youths. First person account is used to show the old mother's grief about herself working so hard and not to be respected. Loads of the techniques such as use of structure, language, and imagery are used in the poem "On my first Sonne". The poem is in rhyming
Compare and contrast how each of the three poets deals with the problem of separation from the person that they love.
Compare and contrast how each of the three poets deals with the problem of separation from the person that they love. Introduction In recent weeks in English we studied 3 poems of varying origin and of various types of poetry. We studied Havisham, by Carol Ann Duffy, Stop all the clocks by W.H. Auden and Valediction: Forbidden mourning by John Donne. All of which are about the loss of loved ones, but in a different way. In 'Havisham', the bride (Miss Havisham) was left at the altar by her to-be-husband; she has sat in her dressing room in her wedding dress for year after year since that day. In 'stop all the clocks...' someone has lost a loved one, they have died. The poem is about what the person expects to happen when something so big happens in life and everyone else just carries on like it's another day. 'Valediction: Forbidden Mourning' is somewhat different though, it is not necessarily the loss of a loved one, but a parting. The writer of this poem wrote it for his wife when he went away; it is about all the good things that will come out of them being apart. Like when they come back together how happy they will be and although it will be a test, it will be worth it. In the following piece of coursework I will be comparing the differences as well as the similarities of
Choose 4 poems which deal with people on the edge. Consider how they are presented and what we learn about them.
Jak Money 11G1 Choose 4 poems which deal with people on the edge. Consider how they are presented and what we learn about them. The four poems I chose were: Stealing, Hitcher, Education for Leisure and Laboratory. The themes in each were: stealing - insanity and theft, Hitcher - a hitchhiker and the truth, Education for Leisure - death and arrogance, and in the laboratory - eccentricity and paranoia. All of these poems deal with people on the edge. They all have people who inflict pain or damage for pleasure or amusement. The language in Laboratory is very old fashioned compared with the other poems, which are relatively modern. It was written long before the others but this language makes the poem harder to read and much harder to understand. The poem is set in an old fashioned Laboratory, full of medicines and poisons, and this is made clear by the vivid description such as "faint smokes curling whitely" and "thou pliest thy trade in this devil's smithy" When this is compared with the language in Education for Leisure, which is very modern and has no hidden references like in Laboratory "the devils smithy" which talks about hell and the devils lair because of all the potions and poisons in the laboratory. It is very ordinary text with nothing exiting to mention, however the ideas mentioned are very extraordinary. It is much the same in hitcher with no exiting language
