Study of 'Anne Hathaway' from Carol Ann Duffy's 'The Worlds Wife'
Bibliography
Duffy, C. (1999) The World’s Wife, London: Picador
Word Count
Total: 1329 Words
Without Quotations, Bibliography, and Poem Titles: 1193 Words
Michael Owens
4175
How typical, in terms of language, style, structure and concerns is ‘Anne Hathaway’ of the collection?
Carol Ann Duffy presents Anne Hathaway as a character who is deeply in love with her partner whom she is writing a poem for. This poem shows that the collection is not an act of revenge, as it shows how much she loves Shakespeare. It also gives the idea that the collection is not completely anti-men as it shows how great Anne thinks her partner is. Using many different poetic terms and presenting them within a sonnet, which Anne Hathaway has supposedly written for her husband William Shakespeare to show her love.
Duffy suggests that making love was their main focus within the relationship. This is shown when she uses the metaphor “the bed we loved in was a spinning world” This suggests that love making was their main focus because it shows that making love made her world spin which shows it must have been pretty good. However the poem ‘Frau Freud’ presents a different idea. This poem suggests that the writer doesn’t enjoy sex and finds penises unappealing. One example of when this is shown throughout the poem is when it says ‘the average penis-not pretty’. ‘Anne Hathaway’ gives a completely different idea to this because the whole poem is about her and her partner making love and her enjoying it and stating how special she thinks Shakespeare is whereas ‘Frau Freud’ shows the woman’s displease at the thought of a penis.
She also uses the metaphor “forests, castles, torchlight, cliff tops, seas where we would dive for pearls.” In this metaphor ‘torchlight’ suggests romance, which suggests even though they spend a lot of their time making love they still have romance, which suggests a strong love for each other. This also has a reference to how the lighting
Duffy, C. (1999) The World’s Wife, London: Picador
Word Count
Total: 1329 Words
Without Quotations, Bibliography, and Poem Titles: 1193 Words
Michael Owens
4175
How typical, in terms of language, style, structure and concerns is ‘Anne Hathaway’ of the collection?
Carol Ann Duffy presents Anne Hathaway as a character who is deeply in love with her partner whom she is writing a poem for. This poem shows that the collection is not an act of revenge, as it shows how much she loves Shakespeare. It also gives the idea that the collection is not completely anti-men as it shows how great Anne thinks her partner is. Using many different poetic terms and presenting them within a sonnet, which Anne Hathaway has supposedly written for her husband William Shakespeare to show her love.
Duffy suggests that making love was their main focus within the relationship. This is shown when she uses the metaphor “the bed we loved in was a spinning world” This suggests that love making was their main focus because it shows that making love made her world spin which shows it must have been pretty good. However the poem ‘Frau Freud’ presents a different idea. This poem suggests that the writer doesn’t enjoy sex and finds penises unappealing. One example of when this is shown throughout the poem is when it says ‘the average penis-not pretty’. ‘Anne Hathaway’ gives a completely different idea to this because the whole poem is about her and her partner making love and her enjoying it and stating how special she thinks Shakespeare is whereas ‘Frau Freud’ shows the woman’s displease at the thought of a penis.
She also uses the metaphor “forests, castles, torchlight, cliff tops, seas where we would dive for pearls.” In this metaphor ‘torchlight’ suggests romance, which suggests even though they spend a lot of their time making love they still have romance, which suggests a strong love for each other. This also has a reference to how the lighting