I was reading Notes Towards a Deformed Humanities and I thought it was so weird. I am not reading a poem backwards. – I understand wanting to read literature in a way that finds unnoticed beauty. I understand turning the work into something new to explore it’s messages and ideas. I think it is so … Continue reading It Took Me a Little While
Look Beyond What You See
For me personally, I have had a few times in my life where I learn something that completely changes my way of thinking about something, and I’m left wondering what in the world I just read. This was one of those moments, where something I took as being one thing was told to me that …
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Distant Reading Duffy
Please refer to this Google Doc for pictures: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-3MzhbvGPuNPL0cd3yeq_ANqv29E0QtA_sSWYPeByso/edit?ts=59f8f4cc# We took a look at color (or ‘colour’) in word trends using the terms and context tools. An issue that was apparent straight off the bat is that with poetry it’s always…
Duffy Distant Reading
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What in the World Carol?!
The more I read CAROL ANN DUFFY the less happy I am with her. I don’t know what to think of her. She is driving me nuts. I don’t think Carol Ann Duffy and I would get along if we met in person. I believe in romance, I believe in love, and I believe that … Continue reading What in the World Carol?!
Married to the Devil
As I read The World’s Wife I got the sense that Duffy was trying to paint a picture of woman’s relationship with essentially the rest of society. There’s comparisons set up by taking a famous or renowned male figure and putting words together to formulate what this figure’s female counterpart might say and think. Drawing […]
The World’s Wife: Finding a ‘Hook’
I was really excited to read The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy, mainly due to what I had learned about her view of the book from the letter she had written to her publishing company. She had self-described this collection as something relevant to pop culture. It seemed that she believed that this book would …
A Reflection of Today’s Version of Feminism
Reading The World’s Wife was a similar struggle to reading Standing Female Nude. I was uncomfortable with much of the content, and many poems made me really despise the people in them, whether that was the speaker or the person…
The value of spoken poetry
When I read through Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife, I did not find it particularly inspiring. I had just been reading Tennyson beforehand, and Duffy’s language seemed less rich, more cynical–something did not approach the older classics. While I still do really prefer Tennyson, discussing Duffy’s poetry in class helped me appreciate her own…
Men Must Really Stink
I remember about a year ago, I was walking with two freshmen who were friends with my little brother. We were by Heritage Halls and a pickup truck drove by with 7-8 athletic looking guys in the back. One of the girls said something along the lines of, “I’d love to get my hands on …
