Carol Ann Duffy should be part of Canon
“Carol Ann Duffy should be part of Canon” Evaluate this statement.
Carol Ann Duffy is a Scottish poet and playwright who was appointed the Poet Laureate in 2009, making her the first woman to hold the position. She has won numerous awards for her poetry, which addresses issues such as gender, violence and subjugation of women, from this many people define her as a feminist because she is passionate about the struggles of women; this is particularly portrayed in The Worlds Wife, which is a collection of her poetry. Currently her literature is not considered as Canonic but it includes many features that define Canonic literature, which is why she has been considered as an addition to the Canon.
Montgomery et al says that the “complexity of the plot, structure, ideas and language” of a piece of literature contributes to it being considered as canonic. In Carol Ann Duffy’s collection of poems The Worlds Wife, all the poems are based on mythology, fairytales or biographical events, which could be seen as complex with regards to the plot and ideas within the literature because the poems display consistent issues that link with the basis of the poem and to the other poems within the collection. For example, the Little Red Cap is based on the Grimm Brothers’ fairytale of Little Red Riding Hood; Duffy adapts this children’s tale into a poem about becoming an independent woman. This poem is the first in the collection and is the beginning of an overall chronological story told through all the poems; this poem starts “at childhoods end” and the final poem, Demeter, is about a woman having her own child. This plot, that is wisely structured, throughout the collection of Duffy’s poems can be viewed as complex because it tells a life story of women and the struggles they come across; one interpretation of the complexity is the chronologically structured story in the collection, if it was a story told in one poem it could be viewed as simple and lacking structure; therefore
Carol Ann Duffy is a Scottish poet and playwright who was appointed the Poet Laureate in 2009, making her the first woman to hold the position. She has won numerous awards for her poetry, which addresses issues such as gender, violence and subjugation of women, from this many people define her as a feminist because she is passionate about the struggles of women; this is particularly portrayed in The Worlds Wife, which is a collection of her poetry. Currently her literature is not considered as Canonic but it includes many features that define Canonic literature, which is why she has been considered as an addition to the Canon.
Montgomery et al says that the “complexity of the plot, structure, ideas and language” of a piece of literature contributes to it being considered as canonic. In Carol Ann Duffy’s collection of poems The Worlds Wife, all the poems are based on mythology, fairytales or biographical events, which could be seen as complex with regards to the plot and ideas within the literature because the poems display consistent issues that link with the basis of the poem and to the other poems within the collection. For example, the Little Red Cap is based on the Grimm Brothers’ fairytale of Little Red Riding Hood; Duffy adapts this children’s tale into a poem about becoming an independent woman. This poem is the first in the collection and is the beginning of an overall chronological story told through all the poems; this poem starts “at childhoods end” and the final poem, Demeter, is about a woman having her own child. This plot, that is wisely structured, throughout the collection of Duffy’s poems can be viewed as complex because it tells a life story of women and the struggles they come across; one interpretation of the complexity is the chronologically structured story in the collection, if it was a story told in one poem it could be viewed as simple and lacking structure; therefore