Little Red-Cap

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1. About the Carol Ann Duffy, an acclaimed author of 12. the obtaining adulthood, consciousness, and awareness,
author Scottish origins. The theme and the story and theme sexual and personal dissatisfaction, the art as the
personal experiences of the poet overlap and sphere of liberation and independence, finding the
are in strong correlation. vocation and voice
2. About the It is associated with the classical fable written
title by The Grimms. The authorship of the fable is
a topic of high importance which I am going
to touch upon later on. The modifier here
sounds: little, which highly pertains to the
theme of the poem.
3. Enjambment reflecting spoken language, emphasis on
and caesura certain excerpts: 'and bought me a drink,/ my
first.'. There is an end stop additionally putting
an emphasis on 'my first' steps into adulthood
4. ennumeratio 'Words, words were truly alive on the tongue
(here's a metaphor), in the head, warm, beating,
frantic, winged'- emphasizes the beauty of the
words, her fascination
5. epithets imagery
6. exclamation 'What big ears he had! What big eyes he had!
with What teeth!'- an expression of surprise, fear,
anaphora maybe she is impressed impression? Tripling-
stronger effect
7. references her relationship with an older man, the
to the Grimms- the name of her partner's band, first
personal life stanza is an actual description of her
of Carol hometown, red blazer- she met the guy at
school, blazer is a typical uniform at schools
in UK, she is in a homosexual relationship- a
general aversion to men, feminist- finding
vocation and giving women a voice
8. rhetorical 'for what little girl doesn't dearly love a
question wolf?'- reader's reflection, it is witty, seductive
9. structure free verse poem, no rhymes, divided into 7
and genre stanzas, 6 verses each, correct punctuation
10. Stylistic symbolism, exclamation, enjambment,
devices enummeratio (tripling), epithet, rhetorical
used in the question, ceasura, anaphora, pa'renthesis
poem
11. symbolism- 'the hermit's caravan'- symbol of solitude,
examples abandonment, wilderness; 'dark, tangled,
and effect thorny place lit by the eyes of owls' thirny
place as a symbol of ruthless life, owls as an
alegory to wisdom and maturity; 'white dove'-
symbol of peace, destroyed by the wolf;
'music and blodd'- symbols of beauty and
pain, dychotomy in the art; 'virgin white of my
grandmother's bones'- bones as a symbol of
death, white- innocence