An onion has many layers and Carol Ann Duffy uses this to relate to the idea of love. Initially, the reader is reminded of the protective outer layer, a moon wrapped in brown paper. If the moon becomes unwrapped, it will give light and Duffy goes on to say this is like the 'careful undressing of love'. This suggests that in the first stages of love, there will be kindness and carefulness with each other's feeling.
The structure of the poem is a sonnet. This is an old fashioned love poem consisting of 14 lines. It usually has rhyming couplets at the end of each line.
The poem is written by Carol Ann Duffy who is writing from the point of view of Anne Hathaway. In the poem Anne Hathaway is speaking about her husband William Shakespeare.
the poem boy by carol Ann Daffy is about a boy who is refuses to grow and wants to stay a young boy he is writing his feelings using words through a poem and showed it very effectively through his language and simple words but with creative and huge meaning
The poem 'Dear Norman' is a dramatic monologue revolving around a young girls fantasy about her paper boy. The poem, as at as I know is about the powers of the girls imagination. As far as who Norman actually is, your guess is as good as mine. H x
Yes, both are dramatic monologues - they appear in Duffy's collection The World's Wife, in which every poem is a dramatic monologue with a female speaker drawn from world history, mythology and literature. Circe and Thetis are both characters in Ancient Greek mythology.
The poem was published in 1993 but I don't know when she actually wrote it.
Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy has written lots of poems which you can find all over the internet. She has written poems called 'The Good Teachers' and 'Before You Were Mine' and 'Dream of a lost friend'. Hopefully these will be of use to you and by searching these poems i am sure that others will come up. (And of course you can just search her name!)
The music was composed by Richard Rodgers and the lyrics were written by Lorenz Hart. Its a show tune from the musical Babe in Arms.
Carol Ann Duffy wrote the poem Salome in 1999.It appears in the collection of poems titled The World's Wife.
Dramatic monologue?
In the poem "Valentine" by Carol Ann Duffy, the poet uses metaphors to compare love to an onion, symbolizing its complexity and layers. Additionally, there is personification in describing the onion as having qualities of a moon, symbolizing beauty and mystery. These figurative language elements help create a rich and complex exploration of love in the poem.
Carol Ann Duffy wrote the poem "War Photographer" in 1985. It was published in her collection "Standing Female Nude."
"December" by Carol Ann Duffy is a reflective poem that explores themes of memory, passage of time, and the changing seasons. The poem emphasizes the melancholy and nostalgia often associated with the winter month of December, as well as the idea of endings and new beginnings. Duffy uses vivid imagery and sensory details to convey the mood and atmosphere of the season.
"Medusa" by Carol Ann Duffy was published in 1999 in her poetry collection titled "The World's Wife." The poem presents a feminist retelling of the Greek myth of Medusa.
The imagery in the poem "Pluto" by Carol Ann Duffy includes references to the planet Pluto, with phrases like "bone-cold," "dark as a cellar," and "tongue of ice." These images evoke a sense of coldness, isolation, and darkness, reflecting themes of distance, loss, and transformation in the poem.
The speaker in the poem "Medusa" by Carol Ann Duffy is Medusa herself. Duffy writes from Medusa's perspective, giving voice to the character from Greek mythology.