May Sarton
1912-1995
pages 295-297
1. "Sarton speaks most urgently and often about what it means to be a women and writer and about the female muse as a primary source of poetic inspiration. Sarton's source of inspiration represents a lesbian variation on the standard muse of heterosexual male poets, their female lover. " (Sarton, p.295)
--- Do you believe that sexuality has an impact on not only women writers but writers in general? Due to the fact that Sarton was cost several teaching jobs after coming out as a lesbian, do you feel that it is worth having your sexuality known to your audience?
2. "May Sarton's chronicles her life as a young writer enamored of Elizabeth Bowen and Virginia Woolf, two British writers whom she met during her visits to England." (May Sarton p.295)
---Based off our readings on Virginia Woolf and Sarton's main themes of her novels, such as friendships, marriage, lesbian love, and aging, do you feel that talking with other women writers can affect themes they write about?
3. "Sarton considered her primary art form to be poetry" (Sarton p.295)
---How important do you believe it is to incorporate art into poetry? Do you feel it makes it more powerful? How do you think poetry can speak the truth?
Carol Ann Duffy
1955-
pages 333-336
1. On page 333, if you would like to refer back to it, what two plays of Duffy's were produced at the Liverpool Playhouse?
2. What were Duffy's first five volumes of poetry about? (Refer to page 333-334)
3. Sean O'Bien said "poetry, like love, depends on a kind of recognition. So often with Duffy does the reader say 'Yes, that's it exactly', that she could well become the representative poet of the present day." (Duffy p.334)
---What does he mean by this?
4. In 'Female Stand Nude' What do you believe the message is that Duffy is trying to get across? (Refer to page 334-335)
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