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Feminine Gospels
Carol Ann Duffy
- The Long Queen (1)
- The opening line reveals that the queen can't die but
it might suggest whenever she wants to die or not.
The first stanza refers to queen Elizabeth who never
married. Queen Elizabeth is a intrest of Duffy as a
femnist writer hence why she uses her in this poem
and usually the monarch is a powerful male which
goes against the typical ideals., she also become
famous for her virgininity
- Its the first
poem in this
section
- Its used first
becuase it is a
poem linked to
main females in
the gosepel
- The long Queen is the representation of a symbolic female figure
(supreme matriarchal figure) figurehead throughout all history of
women both living and dead and is the fairy tale almost.
- Its used first
becuase it is a
poem linked to
main females in
the gosepel
- Stanza 1; the poem opens with
fantastical impossibility, 'The
Long Queen couldn't die.' this
is a short sentence and end
stopped for emphasis this line
sets up a otherworldly nature.
- Her rejections of suitors creates a enjambment and
asyndetic listing which parallels the biography of
the queen, adds the element of fairytale
- "taken time as a husband" the abstract
noun 'time' can be personification of
time being the father of time and
portrays a old and bearded man with a
robe and scythe.
- Her rejections of suitors creates a enjambment and
asyndetic listing which parallels the biography of
the queen, adds the element of fairytale
- Stanza 2; the use of asyndetic
listing in this stanza of the
roles of women "wet nurses,
mothers' this emphasised by
the aliteration of the w sound.
Which could relate to women.
- "Her word of law was in their
bones...no girl born who wasn't
the Long Queen's always child"
It seems thatwomen are by very
nature are subjects of the
queen.
- "Her word of law was in their
bones...no girl born who wasn't
the Long Queen's always child"
It seems thatwomen are by very
nature are subjects of the
queen.
- Stanza 3;
- The opening line reveals that the queen can't die but
it might suggest whenever she wants to die or not.
The first stanza refers to queen Elizabeth who never
married. Queen Elizabeth is a intrest of Duffy as a
femnist writer hence why she uses her in this poem
and usually the monarch is a powerful male which
goes against the typical ideals., she also become
famous for her virgininity
- The Map Women (2)
- Duffy shows that your home town will never leave you, she explores
the character trying to get over her past as a burdon. The words birth
mark and tattoo (juxtaposition) has connotations of marks that will
never go, she can never escape from her past and marked skin.
- It can identity you positive or
negative identity and being
comfortable in your own skin
- She also tries to cover up
her past and she is woven
out of past events.
- It can identity you positive or
negative identity and being
comfortable in your own skin
- Constant metaphor that a
womens skin is a map of her
experiences, emotions.
- Her skin is being a 'A-Z' map that 'grew' which shows that it is not a representations
of the present but also the future. The past and present being linked together and
that you can't escape your past as your present and past makes who you are.
- 'Board if she binged, thin when she
slimmed.' how she deals with her issues
and might link to eating problems
- Her skin is being a 'A-Z' map that 'grew' which shows that it is not a representations
of the present but also the future. The past and present being linked together and
that you can't escape your past as your present and past makes who you are.
- 'Anchored' this word in stanza
6 shows that she will always
be attached to the town and
the quote 'she sponged,
soaped scrubbed' how she
tries to get rid of it but can't.
- Duffy shows that your home town will never leave you, she explores
the character trying to get over her past as a burdon. The words birth
mark and tattoo (juxtaposition) has connotations of marks that will
never go, she can never escape from her past and marked skin.
- Beautiful (3)
- The Diet (4)
- The Women Who Shopped (5)
- Work (6)
- Tall (7)
- Loud (8)
- History (9)
- Sub (10)
- The Virgins Memo (11)
- Anon (12)
- The Laughter of Stafford Girls High (13)
- A Dreaming Week (14)
- White Writing (15)
- Gambler (16)
- The Light Gatherer (17)
- The Cord (18)
- Wish (19)
- North-West (20)
- Death and the Moon (21)
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