WT2 Q6 (Little Red Cap - 2)
Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife is an excellent collection of poems to include in an English A: Language and Literature course. The title of the collection plays on the aphorism ‘the world and his wife’, modifying it to give emphasis to the wife. Each of the 30 poems gives voice to a single female speaker - the wives of famous men (real, imagined, biblical and mythical) - who narrate their historically...