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After being wooed by Poseidon and falling for him, she forgot her vows and married him. For this offence, she was punished by the goddess in a most terrible manner. Each wavy lock of the beautiful hair that had charmed her husband was changed into a venomous snake; her once gentle, love-inspiring eyes turned into blood-shot, furious orbs, which excited fear and disgust in the mind of the onlooker; whilst her former roseate hue and milk-white skin assumed a loathsome greenish tinge.

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1. Medusa was a priestess of Athena who fell in love with Poseidon breaking her vowel causing a serious consequence which was a goddess transforming her into a gorgon. A hideous monster. She was the only killable gorgon!

2. Because Medusa portrayed other women.

3. We alll know

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Medusa was a monster. She was one of the Gorgon sisters and daughter of Phorkys and Keto. She had the face of an ugly woman with snakes instead of hair; anyone who looked into her eyes was immediately turned to stone. Her sisters were Sthenno and Euryale, but Medusa was the only mortal.

She was originally a golden-haired, fair maiden, who, as a priestess of Athena however, after being wooed by Poseidon and falling in love with him, she forgot her vows and married him. For this offence, she was punished by the goddess. Each wavy lock of hair was changed into a venomous snake; her once gentle, love-inspiring eyes turned into blood-shot, furious orbs, whilst her former milk-white skin assumed a loathsome greenish tinge.

Seeing herself transformed into such a horrible creature, Medusa fled her home, never to return. She them became evil. In her despair, she fled to Africa, where, while wandering restlessly from place to place, young snakes dropped from her hair; that is how, according to the ancient Greeks, Africa became a hotbed of venomous reptiles. With the curse of Athena upon her, she turned into stone whomever she gazed upon, till at last, after a life of nameless misery, deliverance came to her in the shape of death, at the hands of Perseus.

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Juan) Medusa was the only Gorgon to possess snake locks, because they were a punishment from Athena. Accordingly, Ovid relates that the once beautiful mortal was punished by Athena with a hideous appearance and loathsome snakes for hair for having been raped in Athena's temple by Poseidon.

Juan Two) She called her poem MEDUSA as it was from Medusa's POV

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1. Medusa had two Gorgon sisters: Stheno and Euryale.

2. She was beheaded by the hero perseus.

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Medusa was a monster one of the gorgons sisters. Medusa was beheaded by hero perseus, he used her head as a weapon to stone other people.
I think carol ann duffy decided to call her poem...
http://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Creatures/Medusa/medusa.html

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Who was Medusa and what happened to her? (Omar)

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Who was Medusa and what happened to her? (Omar)

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Medusa was a woman who lived in Athens and obeyed her greek gods. There were many pretty girls there, Medusa was one of them.In the original story, the Medusa was a beautiful woman who held a very positive role. Tragedy fell upon her when she was confronted with endless hardships brought upon by male actions. Medusa was a beautiful woman who was raped, killed and beheaded by various gods. However even in the face of tragedy and disgrace, the Medusa was portrayed as meaningful. Following the moment her head was removed, a Pegasus flew out of her body, representing the birth of beauty.

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1) Medusa was once a beautiful maiden whose skin was fair and had beautiful hair. She fell in love with Poseidon, and even though she was a priestess who had dedicated her life to celibacy, she married him.

Athena punished Medusa by turning her beautiful locks into snakes. She was humiliated and fled her home and travelled to Africa.

Soon after, she was greeted by Death at the hands of Perseus.

2) I think Duffy called this poem "Medusa" as it is loosely based upon her story. It is also a story of how a woman fell in love with a man but this resulted in the worst possible consequence of this situation. I proves that this caused her to want to get revenge as falling in love led her to this state.

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1.  Medusa was a monster, one of the Gorgon sisters and daughter of Phorkys and Keto, the children of Gaea (Earth) and Oceanus (Ocean). She had the face of an ugly woman with snakes instead of hair; anyone who looked into her eyes was immediately turned to stone.
2. Duffy called this poem based upon her story. It is also a story of how a woman loved  a man but then the result of that was the
3. Everybody is familiar with Medusa being jealous and self-Obsessed . However her love story went wrong.

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Who was medusa?

Medusa was a monster who grew snakes as hair and was capable of turning people into stone at any moment in time she was one of the three gorgon sisters

Why do you think Carol Ann Duffy decided to call her poem this?

She called her poem Medusa because the poem is the medusa’s perspective.

How does this contextual knowledge develop your understanding of the poem?

We know medusa was jealous and the poem brings the jealousy to life and how “love gone bad”. she was jealous that her greek god wanted more than just one lover. however, medusa thought otherwise and wanted him all for herself.

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1. Medusa was a Gorgon a generally described as a winged human female with a hideous face and venomous snakes in place of hair.
2. Medusa is told in the first person as a dramatic monologue by a woman who is insecure and worried that her husband is cheating on her, hence the title of the poem is The Wrath of Medusa.
3. The rhymes help to unify the lines and create a sense of rhythm. Sibilance is particularly used in the first two stanzas to create the sound of a snake.
4. The themes are anger, betrayal and jealousy.

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1.Who was Medusa?
Medusa was a monster, one of the Gorgon's sister. She had the face of an ugly woman with snakes instead of hair; anyone who looked into her eyes was immediately turned to stone. Medusa is told in the first person as a dramatic monologue by a woman who is insecure and worried that her husband is cheating on her. The poem begins: ‘A suspicion, a doubt, a jealousy’ and it is this jealousy which has turned the woman into a gorgon and now everything she looks at turns to stone. This feeling of doubt resonates throughout the poem, exemplified in the line, ‘but I know you’ll go, betray me, stray from home"

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1. Medusa was one of the Gorgon sisters and daughter of Phorkys and Keto, the children of Gaea (Earth) and Oceanus (Ocean). She had the face of an ugly woman with snakes instead of hair; anyone who looked into her eyes was immediately turned to stone. Her sisters were Sthenno and Euryale, but Medusa was the only mortal of the three.
2. She named the poem this because the poem was in Medusa's point of view and basically about her wrath for poseidon
3. This helps our understanding of the poem because now we know where Medusa's anger was coming from, who she was originally and what made her change.