“All alone” indicates that she is triumphant as she escapes the dominant man, and finally becomes independent as she no longer needs a man. 0000022037 00000 n
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( Log Out / In this stanza readers can see how the heroine’s attitude towards the wolf has completely shifted from admiration and excitement to boredom, where in line 24 it says “a greying wolf / howls the same old song at the moon, year in, year out, / season after season, same rhyme, same reason”. 3 0 obj
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One day her mother said to her, "Come, Little Red Riding Hood, here is a piece of cake and a bottle of wine." <>
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Then, in line 7 and 8, the consistent imagery of being stripped of her clothes such as “my stockings ripped to shreds” symbolises her loss of virginity; however, in contrast with the previous stanza, her coming of age is a little bit problematic: “Snagged on twig and branch” suggests she has problems on her way to maturity, “murder clues” suggests her virginity and childhood are killed instead of she willingly discarding her innocence. 0000005208 00000 n
Once she gave her a little cap of red velvet, which suited her so well that she would never wear anything else; so she was always called ‘Little Red-Cap.’ One day her mother said to her, “Come, Little Red-Cap, here is a piece of cake and a bottle of wine; take them to your grandmother, she is … The symbolisms of her losing her virginity make the readers feel her struggle between childhood and maturity, which attract the readers as they create sympathy for Little Red Cap in the poem. <>>>
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Please open the door.” “Lift the latch,” cried the grandmother; “I am too feeble to get up.” So the wolf lifted the latch, and the door flew open, and he fell on the grandmother and ate her up without saying one word. “Lost both shoes” suggests that she loses the ability to walk away from forcing to be mature.
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The text I have in front of me is Little Red Cap by Carol Ann Duffy, it is the opening poem of her 1999 collection of poems The World’s Wife. 0000118540 00000 n
The use of enjambment in the poem connect the stanzas which creates a sense of continuation in the poem and gives the poem a constant forward movement, and it effectively pulls the reader’s attention from one stanza to the next and the extension of ideas makes it easier for readers to follow the poem as a story. The poem Little Red Cap is based on Little Red Riding Hood, however deviates from the original fairytale to convey a sense of female empowerment as at the end of the poem Little Red Cap kills the wolf by herself rather than being rescued by a hunter in the original fairy tale. However, the immediate destruction of the white dove shown by the short sentence “one bite, dead” gives the readers a sense of shock as the illusion of danger and excitement seems to disappear suddenly. 0000001470 00000 n
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It conveys a sense of disillusion to the readers, followed by her realisation of real life “it took ten years / in the woods to tell that a mushroom stoppers the mouth of a dead corpse”. In conclusion, Duffy uses various literary devices, such as imagery, enjambment, hypophora and symbolism to show how the character of Little Red Cap has developed, and brings out the theme of maturity, gender relationship and female empowerment to the readers by deviating from fairy tale, which makes the collection The World’s Wife significant in its contribution to feminist literature. %PDF-1.2
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Little Red Riding Hood Robert Lunn (2019-2020) ... Once she gave her a little cap of red velvet, which suited her so well that she would never wear anything else. And in the last stanza, it says “I took an axe / to a willow to see how it wept”, “I took an axe to a salmon / to see how it leapt”; the repetition of “I took an axe” shows the aggressive, destructive idea she has towards her marriage and the world around her, and also it symbolises the over-empowerment of the female figure. However, the heroine is not portrayed as totally innocent. 0000002502 00000 n
In line 14 it says the heroine “went in search of a living bird – white dove”; “white dove” is a symbol of peace and purity, so it suggests that Little Red Cap is searching for her purity again.
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The sentences from line 15 to line 17 are quite short and plain, which makes the readers feel a sense of indifference as Little Red Cap is becoming less passionate and losing interests in the wolf, and that she might be seeking something more. The poem comprises 7 stanzas, each consists of 6 unrhymed lines. (.�w��K}���������v��k&;U���7s��"[�m���1;��5��7]
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It also suggests how Little Red Cap is trapped in her marriage, and everything good is dead, which creates a sense of bleakness, however “birds / are the uttered thought of trees” is a beautiful line, which shows Little Red Cap’s growing intellect, where the word “birds” corresponds with “white dove” in the previous stanzas that symbolises Little Red Cap’s desire for being liberalised and retrieving her childhood back. 4 0 obj
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Then the concluding line “Out of the forest I come with my flowers, singing, all alone”, it represents a facade of purity, suggesting that the heroine retrieves her innocence after she kills the wolf, and “flowers” represent freshness, growth and the new unsoiled hope of young women.
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