Essays on Carol Ann Duffy

People often wonder where they belong in a culture or society. As one progresses through life they may come across many challenges and expectations, irrespective of age. Being a teen transitioning into the adult life of today’s society is not an effortless or a natural...

In this short analysis, there will be taken a closer look at the poem “Anne Hathaway” published in 1999 by Carol Ann Duffy. This essay will try to show that this poem is a contemporary tribute to Shakespeare’s life and writing, this poem was published...

Carol Ann Duffy’s “First Love” is an overt poem primarily aimed at describing the memory of her first experience with love. The poem focuses on the first love of the narrator, Carol Ann Duffy. Through numerous ways, Carol Ann Duffy portrays her first love as...

The topic of war and death brings with it the emotion of sadness, fear, tension and anguish. Two examples that look at the real sense of war and death are Carol Ann Duffy’s poem, “War Photographer,” and Robert Bly’s poem, “Driving Through Minnesota During the...

Wilfred Owen’s “Anthem for Doomed Youth” and Carol Ann Duffy’s “War Photographer” are poems that, through the use of language and structural techniques, emphasize the suffering experienced in war and more specifically, both highlight the triviality of a soldier’s life in the context of war....

Duffy establishes female dominance and challenges gender expectation through the assertion of power of her female characters, defined as the unconventional rebellion against male dominance. Duffy’s poem ‘Salome’ rids the exploitation of women as she celebrates the behaviour of Salome which transgresses moral and social...