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Mind Map - Duffy's Poems - Coggle Diagram
Mind Map - Duffy's Poems
Little Red Cap
Global Themes:
- Patriarchal influences are still dominating consensual relationships.
- The impact of sex and relationships on coming of age and growth of women
Concepts: Transformation --> Little Red Cap transforms from a little girl to a sexually mature adult in her own terms. She also discovers her own artistic expression after she murders the wolf as a coming of age
Allusion: this poem alludes to the original Grimm's fairytale "Little Red Cap"
Symbolism: "at childhood's end" --> end of innocence, "white dove" --> freedom, peace
Enjambment: "I lost both shoes / but got there" --> used to propel the plot, word play
AOE: Readers, writers, text --> Duffy might have been inspired by her relationship to write this poem and send a message about the lessons she has learnt
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Delilah
AOE
- Time and space --> The poem explores the strict gender norms expected of men and women during the time of Samson and Delilah and also in a modern context
TOK Links:
- How far can a reader understand a text that was written in a context different from their own and which may have addressed a different audience?
- Though Duffy modernized the story, current gender norms in today's society are more flexible and acceptable towards new identities (trans, non binary)
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Global Theme:
- The impact of restricted gender norms on men and women
Literary Devices
- Allusion --> Duffy alludes to the biblical story of Samson and Delilah
- Alliteration --> "Wound" and "war" --> emphasize Samson's role as a warrior and this impact in his life
- Enjambment --> line breaks help enhance the reader's visualization of scene
Mrs. Sisyphus
Global Themes:
- The impact of gender norms on women
- The isolation of women due to how society viewed women's roles in society
AOE:
- Time & space --> demonstrates the gender norms of society before (or remnants of it still seen today: gender inequality)
TOK Links:
- How far can a reader understand a text that was written in a context different from their own and which may have addressed a different audience?
- Even though this poem was likely addressed to housewives whose stories were not told about for their whole lives in more conformed societies. This poem is able to shed light on problems like gender inequality still seen in today's society.
Literary Devices
- Rhyme --> Demonstrates Mrs. Sisyphus' growing frustration and irritation towards her husband
- Repetition --> "Musn't Shirk" --> emphasizes Sisyphus' determination in his work compared to Mrs. Sisyphus
-Metaphor "Reduced to a squawk" --> demonstrates Mrs. Sisyphus' suffering while her husband is devoted to his work
Concepts:
Perspective --> Sisyphus as seen in his wife's perspective (which was not mentioned in the myth of sisyphus)
Circe
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Global Theme: Women are able to assert control and take power back from the men who attempt to control them
Literary Devices
5 senses --> enhances the reader's understanding of the similarities between pigs and men
"moon" as a "lemon" simile --> Circe is bitter towards men
Allusion: Duffy alludes to The Odyssey character Circe
Symbolism: Pigs as men
AOE:
Intertextuality --> recipe structure, dramatic monologue, conversation
Concepts
Representation and perspective
- The poem portrays Circe in her perspective and emotions instead of Odysseus's and the men's view of her in the Odyssey
Penelope
Literary Devices:
Allusion: Duffy alludes to the Greek myth of Odysseus and his wife Penelope
Enjambment: "I sorted cloth..thinking to amuse myself." --> implying the start of another stage in her life
Personification: dog in mourning--> emphasizes the impact of his absence in the life of Penelope
Concepts: Perspective and Transformation
- Penelope transforms from dependent to independent
- we are able to see Penelope's perspective of Odysseus's Absence
Global Theme: Duffy turns the stereotype of embroidery normally associated with the weakness of women to symbolize strength and independence of women with the absence of their husbands
AOE: Time and Space
- Comparing how Homer portrayed Penelope in The Odyssey back in Ancient Greece vs how Duffy portrayed Penelope in the poem
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