Pygmalion's Bride
Global issue: Women empowerment
- Constantly referring to Pygmalion and how he wants to 'shape' the woman to his will.
- Duffy brings out the graphic, sexually violent treatment of the Bride.
- In the second to last stanza, Duffy uses sexually charged words to describe how the Bride pretends to enjoy the sexual interaction.
- In the last stanza, the Bride is 'liberated' from the man.
Salome
Global issue: Femininity
- Focuses on dangerous female seductiveness
- This poem is interesting to both feminist and marxist.
- Duffy retells the biblical story of the step daughter of Herod II and daughter of his second wife Herodias
- The poem presents the traditional story but Salome speaks and behaves like a modern woman
- Wide use of intertextuality
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