{"id":333,"date":"2017-10-11T20:39:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T02:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dh.clarissathiriot.com\/?p=43"},"modified":"2017-10-11T20:39:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T02:39:24","slug":"carol-ann-duffy-and-adrienne-richs-diving-into-the-wreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/student-posts\/carol-ann-duffy-and-adrienne-richs-diving-into-the-wreck\/","title":{"rendered":"Carol Ann Duffy and Adrienne Rich\u2019s Diving into the Wreck"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In winter semester, I took ENGL 366, Studies in Poetry. We focused mainly on the postmodern era. At the end of the semester, I wrote a paper on Adrienne Rich, analyzing the use of environmental feminism, mostly from her book of poetry\u00a0Diving into the Wreck.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Likely prompted by the experience of reading Adrienne Rich with this lens, my reading of Carol Ann Duffy’s\u00a0Standing Female Nude\u00a0<\/em>has occurred with the strong assumption that she is attempting the same feminist narrative that Rich achieved. This may or may not have been the poet’s intent, in Duffy’s case. I have found plenty of instances in which I believe Duffy also uses the environment to further her own feminist arguments, whether or not they are perfectly similar to Rich’s.<\/p>\n

In “The Dolphins,” for instance, Duffy uses the idea of dolphins alienated from the sea, in which Rich’s wreck is found, to make a point that may be about patriarchal restriction and isolation of some demographic–perhaps Duffy herself, or women in general.<\/p>\n

In “Muted Colors,” Duffy uses language that evokes images similar to what Rich uses to write in\u00a0Diving into the Wreck<\/em>. <\/em>In\u00a0my essay last semester, I cited Rich writing about thunder and lightning in her poem “Waking in the Dark.” Duffy writes with similar words, “…Muted colors\/ alter gradually as clouds stir shape, till purple rain\/ or violet thunderstorm shudders in the corner of my eye” (Duffy). Both poets seem to use thunder and the color purple to suggest some feminine power.<\/p>\n

I think it might be interesting to explore the link between Adrienne Rich and Carol Ann Duffy’s poetry further, as their language and ideology really does seem similar.<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/p>\n

Duffy, Carol Ann.\u00a0Standing Female Nude.<\/i>\u00a0Proquest LLC, Cambridge eng., 2000. Web.<\/p>\n

Image:<\/p>\n

Wikipedia contributors. “SS Thistlegorm.”\u00a0Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia<\/i>. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 8 Oct. 2017. Web. 12 Oct. 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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