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Why does Carol Ann Duffy put Little Red Cap at the beginning of the collection and Demeter at the end? How effective do you think they are as first and last poems?
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Why does Carol Ann Duffy put Little Red Cap at the beginning of the collection and Demeter at the end? How effective do you think they are as first and last poems? In Carol Ann Duffy's collection of poems, "The Worlds Wife" the first and last poems are vital to the collection. The opening poem must successfully introduce the themes and style of poems in the collection and the final poem should conclude the collection. Little Red Cap successfully introduces themes that are present throughout the collection. Sexuality is a theme that is present in most of the poems and Little Red Cap is no exception. Duffy writes "which flew, straight, from my hands to his open mouth", this is a metaphor for Little Red Cap's virginity this introduces the reader to the theme of sexuality but much more subtly than the majority of other poems. Duffy may be subtler in Little...
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