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English coursework Explore the ways Christina Rossetti and Carol Ann Duffy present attitudes to female models. In Rossetti's poem she talks about the mirror that gave back all the "loveliness of the nameless girl"- the saint, the angel. In Carol Ann Duffy's poem we are taken through the looking glass and into the rather sceptical mind of the "Queen in opal or in ruby dress" rather than gazing on the painter with "true kind eyes" instead she looks at the painter with a tough and un-sentimental gaze. Duffy's model is under no illusions about who she is. While the painter is said to be "concerned with volume, space" she's more worried about where her next meal is coming from and far from being "fair as the moon" she's all to aware that "her breast hang slightly low", and that the studio is cold. But Carol Ann Duffy's model...

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