Salome
The poem 'Salome' comes from Duffy's collection The World's Wife (1999). As with all of the poems in the collection, Duffy uses a dramatic monologue to give voice to a ‘silenced’ female character from the past, mythology, literature or popular culture. The poem works well alongside other poems from The World's Wife, and can be grouped with others based on Biblical characters - ‘Delilah’, ‘Queen Herod’, ‘Mrs. Lazarus’...