Compare Carol Ann Duffy's Idea Of Love

Duffy presents her idea of good and bad of love by relating it to a Greek mythology. On the other hand Rossetti and Armitage presents their idea of good and bad of love by putting in language features such as personification, metaphors, enjambment and alliteration.
One of the many ways that Duffy presents the bad ideas of love in ‘Hour’ is when she refers back to ‘Midas’s light’– one of the Greek mythologies. This shows that Duffy is trying to express that love isn’t all that good as Midas had turned his daughter into gold, leaving him being alone. The Greek mythology suggests that human nature can be greedy and until something is lost or gone would they realise what they have done wrong. Duffy’s idea of love is that it just is a temporary feeling and most of the time it’s an illusion. This also suggests that Duffy knows that her relationship with her lover may not stay the same. The structure of the …show more content…
As Duffy presents her ideas of good love she relates it to something rich that everyone can afford. ‘… Love spins gold…’ This suggest to me that no matter where you are love can make it better. This quote also tells me that Duffy relates the idea of good love as well as bad love to Greek mythologies and this quote refers to Rumpelstiltskin. At the ending of the story of Rumpelstiltskin, the miller’s daughter was finally able to live at peace with her new born child living happily ever after. This tells me that Duffy was presenting her ideas of love as good. Another language feature that Duffy presented to show her idea of good love is enjambment. ‘… Backhanding the night/so nothing dark will end our shining hour…’ The use of enjambment causes breaks in the flow of the poem and this symbolises the stopping and slowing of time that the two lovers in the poem have and this important to the couples as they would be able to spend more time