Carol Ann Duffy, The World's Wife Review

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Carol Ann Duffy, The World's Wife is awful. Like an apple that has sat, ugly and squat, in the fruit bowl since last july, Carol's poetry will leave a disgraceful taste in your mouth. Not only this, much like the withered fruit in the analogy, the poetry seems to attract stunted, blood-sucking weevils;

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• Jienii on 27th Jun 2009

  I think too many people are reading too much into the feminist views, for one feminism isn't just about hating men. Maybe, just maybe, Duffy is offering an alternative view on famous male figures in legends and reality alike, and is cleverly rewriting mythology in a modern context at the same time. Most of the poems are very tongue-in-cheek. Also, I think men are being offended by the way that the males are portrayed as being weak and useless, when throughout our lives women have been talked about in that way. The male stereotypes are more to be laughed at. Also, people are just looking at the male stereotypes, the women in the poems are being just as stereotyped. In Mrs Midas for example, the woman is clearly being shown as bitter and angry towards her husband, and throughout only seems to be thinking of herself and not really offering her husband much in the way of pity.
  Just try to look at the poems putting feminism aside, and actually look at how cleverly they've been writen.