Carol Ann Duffy Background by Lillian Mann

Childhood/Adolescence

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Carol Ann Duffy was born on December 23, 1955 in Glasgow Scotland. She lived in Glasgow until the age of 6, then she moved to Stafford, England. She grew up attending a convent school and at the age of 14 she started publishing her poetry in magazines

[Carol Ann Duffy Britanica]

Adult Life

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After graduating, she traveled the world publishing and teaching her poetry. She also worked as a literary critic for "The Guardian" until she began to lecture poetry at Manchester University in 1990. She was considered for the position of poet laureate in 1999, by the Prime Miniter had feared that her homosexuality would cause backlash. In 2009 She had accepted that position only because a woman had never held that position

[Carol Ann Duffy Brtianica]

Accolades/Reviews of her work

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She has received many accolades in her career such as the "Whitbread Book Award" and the "T.S. Elliot Prize". She was named the Dame Commander of the British Empire in 2015.

Although some critics have claimed that her work is too 'populist' meaning that some people thought she was trying to create too nig of a separation between the elites and common people.

Topics/Themes of interest in her poetry

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Some of the poetry that Duffy writes includes language and the representation of reality, the construction of the self; many sort of gender and social issues regarding the inequalities between traditional male and female roles, and contemporary culture

Literary Movements: Feminism

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Some of Duffy's poetry contains themes of gender swapping. This can be seen in her poem "Queen Kong" In Duffy’s re-imagining the basic set-up is the same, but the roles are switched. Kong is now the female who falls in love with the film-maker. Although her poem is humorous – even ridiculous – Duffy makes serious points about the way women are objectified by men in pursuit of their own pleasures and satisfactions. In some of Duffy's other poems she allows us to contemplate how hard it can be for a woman to express her true identity in a male-dominated world.

Works Cited

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