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'The World's Wife revises fairytale, history and myth and reworks it into contemporary, feminist fables.' With reference to three of the poems in the volume examine the techniques employed by Duffy in writing contemporary feminist fables.
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'The World's Wife revises fairytale, history and myth and reworks it into contemporary, feminist fables.' With reference to three of the poems in the volume examine the techniques employed by Duffy in writing contemporary feminist fables. Duffy's volume "The World's Wife" is a collection of dramatic monologues where Duffy becomes a ventriloquist inventing the words, which famous, silent, wives from history or myth might have said. Her use of humour and play on clichés creates a collective female voice where dominant male characters are being criticised. Duffy reworks contemporary feminist fables and adopts different personae by employing different techniques, which are particularly displayed in her poems, "Mrs Midas", "Mrs Lazarus" and "Mrs Aesop". Duffy's use of witty humour in the poem "Mrs Aesop" allows her to condescend the male counterpart, by turning his famous fables against him and questioning his manhood. On the contrary, "Mrs Lazarus" portrays a more emotional persona grieving...
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