Background
What is LGBTQ?
What is the main focus of "Mean Time"?
What is the loss of a loved one/breakup?
"History" is apart of this collection.
What is Feminine Gospels Collection?
What are Mystical Machines?
What are planes?
One of the themes Carol Ann Duffy explore in her poems?
What is gender, Oppression, and Social Issues?
What does the light symbolize in Stanza 1?
What is a symbol of love?
History is personified as this.
What is The Old Woman?
What is the poem about?
What is someone leaving home?
Where was Carol Ann Duffy born?
Where is Glasgow, Scotland?
The Darkening sky represents this?
What is the permanent dark and gloomy sky?
What was the purpose of the poem.
What is showing that women have been marginalized and ignored throughout history?
What does the metaphor "Hole in the sky" refer to
What is a reference to the ozone layer and the damage planes have on the environment?
Carol Ann Duffy's daughter's name?
Who is Ella Benson?
In Stanza 2, what was said to symbolize a broken relationship?
What is unmendable rain?
History in Stanza 3 is capitalized for this reason.
What is showing the embodiment of women throughout time?
What was the line "Breathe in and out and in and out" used to do?
What is advice or self soothing?
What year did she become the UK's first Female Poet Laureate.
When was 2009?
What does the line "my heart gnaw at all our mistakes" suggest?
What is physical heartache?
The last line of the poem is significant for this reason.
What is a metaphor for the neglect, disrespect, and abuse of women's perspectives throughout history?
What does the 4th Stanza present?
What is a Social Breakdown?