My Work for English
Medusa
Medusa, the poem I am working on, reveals these characteristics inventively through Medusa, herself’s monologue. Carol Ann Duffy, in her poem ‘Medusa’, develops and explores The transformation of Medusa from a beautiful woman to the Gorgan, the love turning in to the hatred, and loneliness which Medusa feels when no one can come close to her.
The poem opens with the phrase ‘A suspicion, a doubt, a jealousy grew in my mind, which turned the hairs on my head to filthy snakes’. Here, it can be deduced that jealousy is the one which transformed her hair in to the filthy snakes. The word choice’ filthy’ gives a very negative connotation, which does not give a happy start to the poem. The onomatopoeia ‘Hiss’ and the alliteration ‘spat’ and the ‘scalp’ further reinforce the negative connotation. Throughout the poem,the listing is used, highlighting the transformation of Medusa building up to the climax, herself being a Gorgon. In the first stanza, ‘A suspicion, a doubt, a jealousy’, turns her hair on her head to filthy snakes. Then in the second stanza, her face changes, in the phrases ‘ Im fouled mouthed now, foul tongued, yellow fangued’. Then even her breadth gets breath, ‘soured’ and ‘stank’. At the end of the poem, Medusa gives a clear contrast between her former beauty and her horrific Gorgon presence now in the phrases ‘Wasn’t I beautiful?’ and ‘Wasn’t I fragrant and young?. Moreover, not only her physical appearance, but also her emotional difference can be seen when her love towards the man, assumed to be Persaus, changes to malicious hatred. Carol Ann duffy, in her poem ‘Medusa’ also continuously increases the sinister tone through the imageries such as ‘I glanced at a buzzing bee, a dull grey pebbly fell to the ground’ and ‘I looked at a ginger cat, a hous ebrick shattered a bowl of milk’ in which the innocent animals are being turned in to stones because of Medusa’s jealousy and hatred.
Carol Ann duffy also highlights another theme in the poem,
Medusa, the poem I am working on, reveals these characteristics inventively through Medusa, herself’s monologue. Carol Ann Duffy, in her poem ‘Medusa’, develops and explores The transformation of Medusa from a beautiful woman to the Gorgan, the love turning in to the hatred, and loneliness which Medusa feels when no one can come close to her.
The poem opens with the phrase ‘A suspicion, a doubt, a jealousy grew in my mind, which turned the hairs on my head to filthy snakes’. Here, it can be deduced that jealousy is the one which transformed her hair in to the filthy snakes. The word choice’ filthy’ gives a very negative connotation, which does not give a happy start to the poem. The onomatopoeia ‘Hiss’ and the alliteration ‘spat’ and the ‘scalp’ further reinforce the negative connotation. Throughout the poem,the listing is used, highlighting the transformation of Medusa building up to the climax, herself being a Gorgon. In the first stanza, ‘A suspicion, a doubt, a jealousy’, turns her hair on her head to filthy snakes. Then in the second stanza, her face changes, in the phrases ‘ Im fouled mouthed now, foul tongued, yellow fangued’. Then even her breadth gets breath, ‘soured’ and ‘stank’. At the end of the poem, Medusa gives a clear contrast between her former beauty and her horrific Gorgon presence now in the phrases ‘Wasn’t I beautiful?’ and ‘Wasn’t I fragrant and young?. Moreover, not only her physical appearance, but also her emotional difference can be seen when her love towards the man, assumed to be Persaus, changes to malicious hatred. Carol Ann duffy, in her poem ‘Medusa’ also continuously increases the sinister tone through the imageries such as ‘I glanced at a buzzing bee, a dull grey pebbly fell to the ground’ and ‘I looked at a ginger cat, a hous ebrick shattered a bowl of milk’ in which the innocent animals are being turned in to stones because of Medusa’s jealousy and hatred.
Carol Ann duffy also highlights another theme in the poem,