carol anne duffy context

hello

is any one out there doing carol anne duffy selected poetry for their A2?

im really lacking on context for the 1990s onwards section of the anthology..ie john major

and in worlds wife..what do i say about the context of women in this time??...was there anything especially feminist going on??

only asking cos i know that context adds up to 10%

any help would be much appreciated

CHEERS
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Reply 1

bone-machine

ah..york notes has a little section on it at the back of their revison guide...just so you lot know

Reply 2

Jenni_Kitten

World's Wife, you could say that the last poem, Demeter, is written as if Duffy's the mother and Ella (her daughter) the daughter, that lights up her world, linking to the importance of mother-child/daughter relationship (but you knew that).
In general, the collection is a good example of post-modern feminism, women have equal rights in theory but stereotypes and assumptions still exist, and have done through literature and history over time, which Duffy tries to attack in her poems. One of the reasons why a lot of poems have ambiguous elements and twist stereotypes, is to make the reader think in different ways, and prove that the 'normal'/established/traditional ideas aren't necessarily the 'correct' ones.