The World’s Wife Overview – Carol Ann Duffy

The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy is a collection of poems that ironically alludes to well known stories from mythological tales, the Bible and pop culture, in a modern context. Duffy explores the expectation of men to be dominant and impermeable, and of women to be submissive and faithful, through a largely under represented female voice.

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