Duffy and Pugh: Social Attitudes in Their Poems
What connections have you found between the ways Duffy and Pugh present social attitudes in their poems?
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Intro: Duffy and Pugh present social attitudes in different ways... Duffy empowers women, Pugh has negative views on aging.
Core Poem 1: standing female nude is about a woman who works for a poor wage for something which is out of her comfort zone… hello is about aging and how you get forgotten about. Isolation, powerless.
Core Poem 2: Mrs midas is about the consequences of midas's actions and how they have affected his wife. An older woman about a younger man she lusts after some parts of it she could be mothering others she seems like a predator. Corruption, wrong choices.
The poets Duffy and Pugh present social attitudes in different ways. Duffy empowers women and gives them a voice whereas Pugh has a negative view on aging and who you are no longer innocent as you get older.
Firstly, the poem “standing female nude” by Duffy which is about a woman whom is getting painted for a “few francs”. She isn’t happy about this she considers herself as a “river whore” because she is practically selling her body to get painted and it is argued that she also gets it paid for sex this may be argued because she says she “dances around bars” which could be consider as an analogy for being a prostitute. The poem “Man getting hammered: between frames” by Sheenagh Pugh is a deliberation on old age, loneliness and death. It is about an old lonely man whom is saying hello to strangers but isn’t getting a reply it is seems he is ignored because he is old and no-one takes any notice of him. The poem “standing female nude” conveys ideas that the person she is getting painted by “drains” her this illuminates the fact that the painter is sucking the life out of her because she is doing something that she is not keen on doing. It says “sucks the colour” this links back to the act that he is painting her and it gives us more of an incline of what the poem is about. The
Plan
Intro: Duffy and Pugh present social attitudes in different ways... Duffy empowers women, Pugh has negative views on aging.
Core Poem 1: standing female nude is about a woman who works for a poor wage for something which is out of her comfort zone… hello is about aging and how you get forgotten about. Isolation, powerless.
Core Poem 2: Mrs midas is about the consequences of midas's actions and how they have affected his wife. An older woman about a younger man she lusts after some parts of it she could be mothering others she seems like a predator. Corruption, wrong choices.
The poets Duffy and Pugh present social attitudes in different ways. Duffy empowers women and gives them a voice whereas Pugh has a negative view on aging and who you are no longer innocent as you get older.
Firstly, the poem “standing female nude” by Duffy which is about a woman whom is getting painted for a “few francs”. She isn’t happy about this she considers herself as a “river whore” because she is practically selling her body to get painted and it is argued that she also gets it paid for sex this may be argued because she says she “dances around bars” which could be consider as an analogy for being a prostitute. The poem “Man getting hammered: between frames” by Sheenagh Pugh is a deliberation on old age, loneliness and death. It is about an old lonely man whom is saying hello to strangers but isn’t getting a reply it is seems he is ignored because he is old and no-one takes any notice of him. The poem “standing female nude” conveys ideas that the person she is getting painted by “drains” her this illuminates the fact that the painter is sucking the life out of her because she is doing something that she is not keen on doing. It says “sucks the colour” this links back to the act that he is painting her and it gives us more of an incline of what the poem is about. The