Hello Charlie, not too sad about the lockdown ?
Time for my second article, let me take a deep breath. What am I going to talk about ? Oh yes, during those holidays, I read a book, and it’s called
THE WORLD’S WIFE.
You may ask... what is it ? I’m certainly going to tell you, hang on !
The world’s wife is a book that contains thirty-one poems written by Carol Ann Duffy, a scottish poem and the poet laureate of the United Kingdom .
But enough about her, let’s talk about the book. As its name suggests, The world’s wife contains poem about a lot of women that have been excluded from history. Circe, Mrs Midas,Mrs Darwin, or even the Devil’s wife, nobody is forgotten. Some of them are suffering, some of them are living a passionate love story, or a very tender one. We see a lot of different point of view about life. So, yes, you might have guess it, this book is a feminist classic.
However, those poems do not only bring a female point of view to the myths, tales and other stories that we know only too well, it also brings a non-hidden modernism , and often a darker look : Little Red-Cap is definitively not as innocent as we may have thought.
I really loved this book and a some of the poem made me discover celebrities I didn’t know about, for example The Kray Twins, that had be turned into women in the poems. (They are actually british criminals, for those of you who may don’t know that ).
My favourites poems in the whole book would probably be Medusa, and Mrs Kong.
I especially love how the writer strongly described Medusa’s pain due to her transformation, and I love how modern Mrs Kong’s story is.
So, hey, what could I say more ? What are you waiting ? Go to a library or go buy this book right now !
