Carol Ann Duffy poem

[vivariumvivariumsvivaria]

Re-reading "The world’s wife" with studying teen.

Mrs Tireslias is about the woman married to a gender fluid person, based on the Greek myth about the seer, Tiresias.

"On tv
Telling the women out there
How, as a woman himself,
He knew how we felt"

I've never noticed it before, I thought it was about how men think they understand women, but, actually, the poem is about a trans widow, right?

worldswiferchk.weebly.com/mrs-tiresias.html

I can arrange classroom conversation on the poem. Give me a couple of weeks and I will get back to you.

Try "Small Female Skull" (about having a hangover).

I also love "Dear Norman".

voetica.com/voetica.php?collection=15&poem=8188&poet=781

genius.com/Carol-ann-duffy-small-female-skull-annotated

@Cismyfatarse

I can arrange classroom conversation on the poem. Give me a couple of weeks and I will get back to you.

Not placemarking at all...

Well, if cisymyfatarse is going to that trouble... shall we have a little CAD geek group on this thread, then?

I don't know anything about literature, but I have a Scottish Set Text Guide...

Love her work.

@JayAlfredPrufrock

Love her work.

And I love your Lovesong

That’s kind.

More than one exam board has Antigone - which features Teiresias, using a wee boy as some kind of guide dog, to boot - as an A-Level Drama & Theatre Studies set text. That could be Even. More. Fun. for teachers…

@JayAlfredPrufrock

That’s kind.

More elegiac and haunting but yeah.

@vivariumvivariumsvivaria

Well, if cisymyfatarse is going to that trouble... shall we have a little CAD geek group on this thread, then?

I don't know anything about literature, but I have a Scottish Set Text Guide...

Yay!

I love 'warming her pearls'

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56715/warming-her-pearls

I love teaching her poems. The Snowman is such a great poem for teens

@Slothtoes

That’s a great poem, properly uncomfortable to read. Google tells me Duffy was the first female Uk poet laureate. How brilliant.

Not only is she is the first woman, she is also the first Scottish-born poet and the first known LGBT poet to hold the position. Love her poetry, I 'accidentally' bought myself the anthology of her Christmas poems that was in the bookshops this year.