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25th November

Feminine gospels – Carol Ann Duffy

Structure

- Sestets, equal line stanzas
- No rhyme schemes
- Each stanza so end stopped
- Poses question and then responds
- Uses asyndeton, lists words without conjunction

Meaning

- About queen Elizabeth

Stanza One

- Chose reigning the country over men
- Prolongs the reign
- ‘time’ is being personified

Stanza Two

- She was a role model for women
- Queen of women

Stanza Three

- How she reigned
- Mythical imagery of Elizabeth

Stanza Four

- Young girls can look up to her

Stanza Five

- Periods are natural, no cause for complaint
- Tears linked with feminine emotion

Stanza six

- Destigmatising childbirth
- ‘Sore flowers’ – an oxymoron

Stanza seven

- Queen listening in on her subjects
- Enjoys their stories and hearing from them

The poem is a celebration of femininity.

History is a theme in this poem, by using queen Elizabeth, a symbolic figure in the history of England.

The narrator admires Elizabeth, using a positive tone and language to describe her – written by a
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