AO5 Critics - Poetry

Question 1

Angela Carter? AO4 & AO5

Answer 1

The Snow Child -> AO4
“count lifted her up and sat her”
“girls picks a rose… bleeds”

Feminist critic -> AO5
“girl is a helpless character, unable to control her destiny” - Bacchilega - literary perspective
“rose is a symbol of feminity… “bite” symbolises the suffering that accompanies being female”

Question 2

Carol Ann Duffy, Little Red-Cap?

Answer 2

AO4 ->
wolf lead girl into a “dark tangled thorny place” - men don’t care about women’s safety -> reflecting on women mistreatment
“my stockings ripped to shreds” - her innocence/youth stripped away by men
“One bite, dead” - end of women in society
“took an axe” -> roles shifted -> women in power/control -> she becomes the huntsman

Question 3

Radhika Sanghani, article?

Answer 3

“bossy”, “feisty” -> used only for women, not for men -> vocab gender divide -> sexism