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Compare the way the characters of Salome and Anne Hathaway are presented in Carol Anne Duffy's poems.
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Megan Field 11MJO October 04 CKE Compare the way the characters of Salome and Anne Hathaway are presented in Carol Anne Duffy's poems. Carol Anne Duffy wrote both Salome and Anne Hathaway. In this essay I am going to be comparing how the characters of Salome and Anne Hathaway are presented in Duffy's two poems. Duffy's intention as with all of her poems is to give historically famous women who were previously unheard a new voice. Both these poems are written in the women's view like a monologue, both deal with death and have a sexual content. Anne Hathaway is Shakespeare's wife. It is written in the style of a sonnet to celebrate her husband's work, Shakespeare wrote many sonnets. I can tell this because there is a rhyming couplet at the end, it is a fourteen line poem about love with a regular rhythm pattern of 10 syllables per line where...
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