Salome and Anne Hathaway in Carol Anne Duffy's Poems
Carol Anne Duffy wrote both Salome and Anne Hathaway. In this essay I
am going to be comparing how the characters of Salome and Anne
Hathaway are presented in Duffy's two poems.
Duffy's intention as with all of her poems is to give historically
famous women who were previously unheard a new voice. Both these poems
are written in the women's view like a monologue, both deal with death
and have a sexual content.
Anne Hathaway is Shakespeare's wife. It is written in the style of a
sonnet to celebrate her husband's work, Shakespeare wrote many
sonnets. I can tell this because there is a rhyming couplet at the
end, it is a fourteen line poem about love with a regular rhythm
pattern of 10 syllables per line where the second syllable is
stressed. It is therefore an iambic pentameter. It uses lots of heavy
imagery written as metaphors and similes throughout the poem. "My
lover's words were shooting stars which fell to Earth as kisses". In
history we learn that Shakespeare in his will, left Anne the second
best bed. Before reading this poem I thought she would have felt
degraded, humiliated and upset about being left this bed. This poem
showed me Anne's feelings from a completely different perspective. The
poem is a reflective, celebration of love. Anne and Shakespeare's most
loving, passionate, happy memories are in the second best bed. It has
the most sentimental value to them. 'My living, laughing love'. An
alliterative quote showing just how, for her, her love for Shakespeare
is still very much alive even though he is dead.
This is contrary to Salome, a biblical character who...
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...e me-whose?-what did it matter?" She doesn't seem to
care about the men she kills and knows she will do it again sooner or
later. "In the mirror I saw my eyes glitter". She likes the feeling of
being in control of someone's life. "And there like I said-and ain't
life a bitch-was his head on a platter". The language used in this
quote is slang it shows me that Salome has been bought forward to the
20th Century.
It seems that Duffy has based her modern character on a promiscuous
Salome that gets what she wants and cares very little about the
consequences. This is quite the opposite to how Duffy presents Anne
Hathaway. Anne Hathaway misses her husband terribly, she celebrates
his work and their passionate love affair with each other. Salome is a
very negative poem whereas Anne Hathaway is a positive, uplifting
poem.
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...rself said “Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable, and the one thing of which I have never, ever been guilty of.’(Williams 93)She gets the better side of us and convinces us that she is different now, and that we should feel sympathetic towards her as she is driven into a state of mind that worries us as she has gone slightly mental.
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