Freedom

Question 1

Map woman and oranges - main point of comparison

Answer 1

• both explore the desire for freedom to contdstruct one’s own identity and escape restriction of past identity under patriarchy’s restrictive control - however in both freedom is double -edged

Question 2

map woman and oranges - map woman

Answer 2

• freedom has an almost futile feel - reflecting futility of attempts to disrupt the social order
• imagery of restriction reflects lack of freedom: stanza length is strictly controlled, rarely more than 10 lines - reflecting the restriction of women by the map.
  ‘ a woman’s skin was a map of the town in which she’d grown’ - inescapable as it is attached to her - in the same way that the past is attached to her.
• it is connected to the imagery of patriarchal oppression - absolute naming and owning of a place
  ‘she covered it up with a dress, with a shawl, with a hat’ - asyndetic listing - oppression, lack of freedom due to repression of individual identity under patriarchy

Question 3

oranges and map woman: oranges

Answer 3

• perhaps similarly, Jeanette’s insular community is inescapable and oppressive - lack of freedom due to inability to escape identity imposed on you by patriarchy
• like the map woman. winters uses asyndetic listing: ‘a missionary child, a servant of od, a blessing; to reflecting the expectations imposed on Jeanette - her diction mirrors her mother’s - bathetic - but reflects the lack of freedom to define her own identity
• mother and church’s manichean worldview - ‘perfections’, he announced, ‘is flawlessness’

Question 4

Map woman and tall - main point of comparison

Answer 4

• freedom as internal versus external

Question 5

Map woman and tall: tall

Answer 5

• freedom is equated with heigh, serving as a physical manifestation as internal strength - an image of uncontainable female power allowing her to escape patriarchal constraints
• ‘then, like a christening gift or a wish arriving’ - heigh/freedom is presented as an awaited blessing
• ‘stared at his sacred face, the red heart tattooed on his small chest. he turned and fled like boy; - female strength emasculates men. Her height is flare, reflecting the male fear of female progression - his fear is from her almost abnormal ability to disrupt the male ego.
• the structure is 17 stars with no rhyme scheme - enjambement creates a metrical flow which mirrors her persistent growth and further reflects the naturally increasing freedom/power of women untethered tp restrictive patriarchal standards.

Question 6

map woman and tall: map woman

Answer 6

• external freedom, yet internally hs tis still restricted - lasting impact of patriarchal oppression ‘over her breast was the heart of the tow’ - intimate imagery - male gaze, inextricably linked with the present identity
  ‘pining fro glasgow, London, Liverpool’ - big cities are viewed as a chance for freedom
  ‘she lived down south, abroad, en route, up north’ - she is oblivious to the futility of trying to escape the map
• ;’what was she looking for’ - a sense of rootlessness

Question 7

tall and oranges - main point of comparisonn

Answer 7

• both explore the consequences of freedom

Question 8

tall and oranges: oranges

Answer 8

• freedom is necessary, but it is regardless painful
• the orange demon serves as a blakian poetic manifestation of her sexuality
• it becomes a motif - in accepting it, she subverts evangelical demonism
  ‘you’ll have a difficult, different time;
• difficult life of non-conformists is necessary for change
• ‘I could have been a priest instead of a p[rophet’
• positive impacts: gives her the opportunity to step outside the patriarchal world and define her own identity
• through a retrospective narration she is able to do this
• metanraatives alos serve as a means ofr her to construct her own identity outside of the binary confines of her mother’s authoritarian control

Question 9

oranges and tall: tall

Answer 9

• height mirrors freedom to be a woman in a male dominated world - ‘her clothes would be curtains’ - the world isn’t built for her. ‘out’ = enforced otherness
• ‘she bowed herself into a bar’ - ‘she needed a turret’ - a point in Duffy’s career where she desires a private persepctive - allusion to rapunzel: ‘colder, aloner, no wiser’