Compare and contrast the poems Mrs Faust and Eurydice :: English Literature

Compare and contrast the verses Mrs Faust and EurydiceThe poems Mrs Faust and Eurydice are taken form the collection ofpoems called The Worlds Wife. The collection is written by Carol AnnDuffy, it is a digest of poems that explores feminist principles,the state of feminism today and other such(prenominal) similar topics. The poemMrs Faust however is not particularly a feminist poem kinda itlooks into the shallow materialistic values of our society. Eurydicehas feminist connotations, again though is not particularly a stronglyfeminist poem.Mrs Faust is written in a trend that attracts the readers attention,the opening going has conversational undercurrents, which has theeffect of involving the reader, and in effect urging the reader toread on. First things first- the first line of the poem is anexcellent example of the conversational tone that Carol Ann Duffy hasadopted. This style of writing is too in effect in the poem Eurydice,again the opening instruction is a good example o f this. Girls, I wasdead and down in the underworld, in this she has taken theconversational tone to the next level. This statement is now aimed ata specific group of people women. By doing this, women, perhaps themain target demographic can relate to the poem more easily, and assuch it will have a larger effect on them.The oral communication and structure of Mrs Faust is very important to themeaning and effect of the poem. We met as students, shacked up, splitup, make up, hitched up. The fast pace employ of short sentences andthe language here reflects the fast pace of the lives Mrs Faust andher husband shared. The attention to the materialistic gains in thepoem also reflects both upon the shallow love that Faust shares withhis wife, and also perhaps the superficiality of our modern society.Fast cars. A boat with sails. A second home in Wales. This passageis quite possibly an accurate representation of the materialisticwealth that people have. She also implies that because of thi s thelove that they share is very shallow, and perhaps does not even exist.The use of language in Eurydice is also very important in creating thetone of the poem. The opening stanza of the poem uses an extended simile it uses literacy and words as a metaphor to describe thedesolate underworld. It was a place where language stopped, a blackfull stop, a black hole where words had come to an end. Because ofthe importance of language for Orpheus and Eurydice, by describing theunderworld as a lack of language and words, it shows the bleakness of