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I truly loved Carol Ann Duffy, The World's Wife because it was very realistic. And for all of those people who say it is feminist I also feel it is anti-femenist in the sense that the traditional view of feminism is being condemed. You do not need to act like a man (Kray Sisters) to be a feminist. I ...

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I am reading Carol Ann Duffy, The World's Wife for my A level - Lively and full of witty comments and humour Duffy brings out the voice of women in myth, however it can be too unrealistic, sometimes I can feel sick with the dirty comments and feel that the poet is too extreme.

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Carol Ann Duffy's collection, The World's Wife has a lot going for it, there's a lot of enlightening views and I particularly like the way in which Duffy has modernised traditional myths. Poems that I enjoyed most were Demeter, Mrs faust, Queen Kong and The Devils Wife. However...there is always a h ...

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I think that The World's Wife collection by Carol Ann Duffy is quite good and we are doing it at the moment in my English Lit class. Her ideas might be a bit over the top but so often women have been seen as being inferior to men (even now in the 21st century) and have not gotten enough credit and I ...

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Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife is pants. We read it in english lit and i would not recomend it to my worst enemy!! especialy "pope joan"!!