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?!

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 […]

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 …

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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…

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…

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 …

Pygmalion’s Bride. While I was reading the second half of this book, I decided that before I read the poem, I would look up the story of whoever the poem was talking about or the story of the man who was being referenced in the poem. I found that Pygmalion is a play written by George Bernard Shaw based on the mythological figure of the same name. A quick version of the story is: Pygmalion fell in love with one…

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I have to admit, the poem “Mrs. Icarus” in Carol Duffy’s “The World’s Wife” made me chuckle to myself. The story of Icarus is one of my favorite Greek myths and I thought that Duffy’s take from Icarus’ wife’s point of view was very clever […]

I have to say reading “The World’s Wife” has been an interesting experience for me. I’m usually not a big…

Reading Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife has got me thinking about historic women, particularly Medusa. I heard somewhere (that is not a very reliable source I know) that the story of Medusa is actually a story ancient Greek women would look to for empowerment. In the original tale, Poseidon…