Standing Female Nude Commentary
“If a man is highly sexed he 's virile. If a woman is, she 's a nymphomaniac. With them it 's power, but with us it 's a disease! Even the act of sex is called penetration! Why don 't they call it enclosure?” ― Gemma Hatchback. This quote relates to Carol Ann Duffy’s poem Standing Female Nude both shed light on the double standards between genders in society causing the feminist movement that’s still alive today. Both show how women are looked down upon for the same actions men do since it’s not seen as “lady like.” Women are to be pure, modest, and humble. If a women ever dares not to live up to these standards and own their sexuality are looked down upon, shunned, and or even insulted considered a skank, slut, …show more content…
Some men usually the insecure ones look at women as second class citizens and weak, incompetent creatures, only useful for sexual pleasure and bearing their children. These men usually see this action as empowering when objectifying and judging women causing the feeling of entitlement of a women’s body. In Standing Female Nude the female model sells her body to make a living and the male artist paints her body which is seen as an art but also pays her for her services. Standing Female Nude depicts the cynical behavior of men and the irony that revolves around double standards women face in socioeconomics through imagery, form/structure, and paradox.
Carol Ann Duffy’s strong use of imagery (sensory details) in her poem Standing Female Nude depicts the cynical behavior of men towards women. In stanza one, “Six hours like this for a few francs. Bell nipple arse in the window light, he drains the colour from me… I shall be represented analytically and hung in great museums. The bourgeoisie will coo at such an image of a river-whore. They call it Art.” The women is selling her body for money so she refers to herself as a river-whore, …show more content…
The use of enjambment and caesura creates a form of poetic prose creating a calm unpretentious flow causing the reader to focus on the words and phrases themselves for example, “Maybe. He is concerned with volume, space. I with the next meal.” The caesura emphasizes the struggle of being poor. Duffy also uses common slang and sexual innuendo; “whore,” “art,” “queen of England,” “wine,” “dance around the bars,” “little man,” and “tea-leaves” to better connect with the reader and create certain images in their
“If a man is highly sexed he 's virile. If a woman is, she 's a nymphomaniac. With them it 's power, but with us it 's a disease! Even the act of sex is called penetration! Why don 't they call it enclosure?” ― Gemma Hatchback. This quote relates to Carol Ann Duffy’s poem Standing Female Nude both shed light on the double standards between genders in society causing the feminist movement that’s still alive today. Both show how women are looked down upon for the same actions men do since it’s not seen as “lady like.” Women are to be pure, modest, and humble. If a women ever dares not to live up to these standards and own their sexuality are looked down upon, shunned, and or even insulted considered a skank, slut, …show more content…
Some men usually the insecure ones look at women as second class citizens and weak, incompetent creatures, only useful for sexual pleasure and bearing their children. These men usually see this action as empowering when objectifying and judging women causing the feeling of entitlement of a women’s body. In Standing Female Nude the female model sells her body to make a living and the male artist paints her body which is seen as an art but also pays her for her services. Standing Female Nude depicts the cynical behavior of men and the irony that revolves around double standards women face in socioeconomics through imagery, form/structure, and paradox.
Carol Ann Duffy’s strong use of imagery (sensory details) in her poem Standing Female Nude depicts the cynical behavior of men towards women. In stanza one, “Six hours like this for a few francs. Bell nipple arse in the window light, he drains the colour from me… I shall be represented analytically and hung in great museums. The bourgeoisie will coo at such an image of a river-whore. They call it Art.” The women is selling her body for money so she refers to herself as a river-whore, …show more content…
The use of enjambment and caesura creates a form of poetic prose creating a calm unpretentious flow causing the reader to focus on the words and phrases themselves for example, “Maybe. He is concerned with volume, space. I with the next meal.” The caesura emphasizes the struggle of being poor. Duffy also uses common slang and sexual innuendo; “whore,” “art,” “queen of England,” “wine,” “dance around the bars,” “little man,” and “tea-leaves” to better connect with the reader and create certain images in their