Category: LOVE LITERATURE
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Carol Ann Duffy often uses unconventional objects to explore love. Rather than relying on typical symbols like roses or hearts, she chooses items that feel unexpected, giving her poems a unique perspective. In this post, I will consider how she represents different facets of love: perseverance in Valentine, sexual desire in Anne Hathaway, and vulnerability in Delilah. In Valentine,…
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I’ve been thinking a lot about the idea of sexuality as power – how women can use it to resist societal judgment -and I wanted to explore it through Maya Angelou’s 1978 poetry collection And Still I Rise and Prosper Mérimée’s 1845 novella Carmen. Even though these works are separated by more than a century, both grapple with…
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