Love as Sarcasm: The treatment of Love in the Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy. | ||
| CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education | ||
| Article 4, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 2018, Pages 111-134 PDF (465.17 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/opde.2018.95956 | ||
| Author | ||
| Dr. Bahaa Abdelmegid Abdelmegid | ||
| Abstract | ||
| My paper investigates how Carol Ann Duffy has treated love in her poetry. It appears that she has treated love as a theme in an ironic and nontraditional way. She has always been preoccupied by the idea of love in her poetry. The paper also attempts to unfold the hidden messages which the poet wants to reveal through her poems. The paper introduces the definition of sarcasm and how it is employed by Duffy in a very subtle way. This is then followed by her views about love and how she looks at it. Major poems from her distinguished body of work are analyzed from a thematic and a symbolic point of view. Being a feminist and keen to present a different concept of love, Duffy introduces many types of women especially those who are preoccupied by the idea of gender and the social role of women. Her books The World's Wife and Love Poems as well as many other famous individual poems such as ‘Valentine’, ‘You’ and ‘Warming Her Pearls’ are extensively explained and interpreted to demonstrate how she employs sarcasm in very elaborate way. | ||
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