Carol Ann Duffy Poems(Mrs Midas)

Question 1

Commonality

Answer 1

The poems Mrs Midas, Havisham and Valentine all explore the theme of love as a potential source of pain and relationships as potentially dangerous.

Question 2

Simile

Answer 2

“unwrapping each other rapidly like presents, fast food”
to do with being intimate with a lover
“and it sat in his palm, like a lightbulb”

Question 3

Metaphor

Answer 3

“spitting out the teeth of the rich”

Question 4

Personification

Answer 4

“its steamy breath gently blanching the windows”

Question 5

Reference to ideas outwit the poem

Answer 5

Field of gold cloth, Miss Macready, Pan and Tutankhamun

Question 6

Play on words

Answer 6

‘petrified’

“how he’d had a wish, look we all have wishes granted but who has wishes granted?”

Question 7

Allitertion

Answer 7

“glass, goblet, golden chalice”