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Mrs Beast by Carol Anne Duffy
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Mrs Beast is central to The Worlds Wife. Explain how far this is true with reference to 2 other poems. Mrs Beast is a central poem to the anthology, if not the most central poem. It contains a sum up of Duffy's message of "The Worlds Wife" and is the only poem in the anthology that is able to convey that message in one. The narrator in the poem is much like Carol Anne Duff" as she sets to straighten out all "these myths going round, these legends, fairytales." However this is referring too much of what she has been writing about in The Worlds Wife where there is always a woman behind the man. In Mrs Beast, the narrator is interpreted as a strong woman, who has complete control over the "Beast" of the poem. He may not be the most charming, handsomest and most popular but "they're bastards...
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