Mrs Rip Van Winkle
Carol Ann Duffy * Track #20 On The World’s Wife
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Mrs Rip Van Winkle by Carol Ann Duffy
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The collection of poems by Carol Ann Duffy entitled ‘The World’s Wife’, was first published in 1999 and presents stories, myths, fairy tales and characters in Western culture from the point of view of women. Much of literature through the ages and even today is patriarchal, presenting the world from...
Mrs Rip Van Winkle Annotated
I sank like a stone
into the still, deep waters of late middle age,
aching from head to foot
I took up food
and gave up exercise.
It did me good.
And while he slept
I found some hobbies for myself.
Painting. Seeing the sights I'd always dreamed about:
The Leaning Tower.
The Pyramids. The Taj Mahal.
I made a little watercolour of them all.
But what was best,
what hands-down beat the rest,
was saying a none-too-fond farewell to sex.
Until the day
I came home with this pastel of Niagara
and he was sitting up in bed rattling Viagra.
Mrs Rip Van Winkle Q&A
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Mrs Rip Van Winkle was written by Carol Ann Duffy.
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