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“The Kray Sisters” poem demonstrates a total feminist outlook on the globe while the “Standing female nude” poem has a tough feminist edge. This means that both poems have some relation to strong feminism. Both poems demonstrate a globe ruled by the tough female characters (Duffy, 1999). For example, The Kray Sisters refer to a female role representation for each and every female and by looking at the poem it demonstrates in the plainest form that it is related to an exceptionally strong feminist outlook.
On the other hand, “Standing female nude” poem has a female model, whose variableness, and confrontation to conservative philosophies in regard to the undressed model shows that it can, certainly, be transmogrified into the gentleman artist's demonstration of her when she is in the naked form (Duffy, 1985). To the female model, the work of art does not signify either what she comprehends herself to be as an individual or her way of life. Showing that the model is a feminist, and feels that whatever she is doing by posing as a nude model has nothing to do with what the world thinks or her male counterparts because show knows who she is, and a painting does not depict who she is or the life she lives.
The “The Kray Sisters” poem supports the feminist point of view that men are of no value and that women can survive and work better exclusive of men. This can be shown when Duffy illustrates that a boyfriend is only for Christmas, not for existence to show the chauvinism towards men and makes known the instruction of the feminist outlook to the reader (Duffy, 1999). These women say that any woman who might be in any dilemma could approach the Krays, for security. This additionally endorses the image of the Kray Sisters as strong but compassionate for other women.
Madeleine K. Albright says that “There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women” (Selden, 1985). This means that women should be united and try to help each other out whenever they can because this is what women ought to do. In the “Standing female nude” poem articulates that the female model cannot be enclosed by the illustration art that would control her. She knows what she stands for, and tries to show this as she talks to the artist who tries to prove her stand wrong in regard to her being painted nude.
In the “Standing female nude” poem, Duffy uses characterization, timing and dialogue, predominantly in her utilization of the theatrical monologue. Duffy is acutely perceptive and compassionate as she puts herself into the state of mind of each personality and articulates the points of sight in the dialect of the characters’ personal speech (Duffy, 1985). She over and over again integrates hilarity with serious insights as well as social commentary. On the other hand, Duffy uses monologues in the form of italics to show that it is an external voice saying, for example, there are the twins to show their reputation and popularity.
Duffy writes in a lot of dissimilar forms of estrangement, repression and social disparity in both poems. Duffy writes the poem “Standing female nude” in everyday, informal language, which makes the poem to seem unrepresentatively simple. She utilizes this demonic style to generate modern-day versions of long-established poetic forms. She achieves this by making recurrent use of the theatrical monologue in her discovery of dissimilar voices and diverse identities that also become known from her first,
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