The first stanza has 14 lines; the second and third stanza have nine lines, and the last one has four lines.
The register of the poem is intimate and addressed to a large number of readers. A hasty and knowledgeable reader will easily connect the character of this poem with a historical and biblical woman named Salome. The myth of a dancer Salome has been told in various different ways. It the poem became known in different adaptations as in literature, television, cinema and theatre. The history of the biblical Salome is very well known among the religious, but it seems to me important to refer briefly about it on the next page.
Then, I will proceed with an interpretation or analysis of this poem Salome in a historical way, but also in a modern way. I mean, I will always connect this poem with the real, biblical, story.
That is because, in my opinion, the persona can simultaneously be a modern fictional woman from nowadays, or the historical but also fictional woman. In other words, in my point of view, the poem relies on double meanings, therefore two different interpretations. She and her four brothers were raised up in Stafford in the Northmiddlands where her father was a local councillor, a parliamentary candidate for the Labour Party in and manager of Stafford FC a soccer team. Carol A.
Duffy went to St. She started to work as a freelancer writer in London and became an editor of a poetry magazine named Ambit , where she is still working as a reviewer and broadcaster. Then, in , she moved to Manchester where she is until now lecturing creative writing at the Manchester Metropolitan University.
She Carol A. Info You write it, we right it! Two references in the New Testament of the Bible, in the Gospels according to Mark and Matthew, give us the background to the character of Salome.
Briefly, she danced for King Herod who was so delighted that he said he would give Salome whatever she asked for. Salome, prompted by her mother Herodias, asked for the head of John the Baptist, who had said that Herodias' marriage to Herod was unlawful. Herod had no choice but to send an executioner to John the Baptist, who was in prison.
His head was brought to Salome 'in a dish', and she presented it to her mother. The impression is of a contemporary girl or young woman.
The narrator tells us at the start of the poem 'I'd done it before' and says she will probably do it again: do what again? Salome has woken up with a head on the pillow next to her, and she doesn't even know whose it is. She doesn't seem to think that's important, either.
It may not sound too out of the ordinary; people might have too much to drink and not remember what happened when they wake up the next morning. Salome tells us that the man is 'Good-looking' with 'dark hair'; so far, so good.
Then, however, she says that the hair is 'rather matted' and that the beard is a lighter shade of red than it had been. It begins to sound as though the head is blood stained. Salome goes on to say that the 'deep lines around the eyes' could be caused by laughter, but she thinks more likely by pain. His mouth is 'crimson', another sign of blood. When she kisses his lips, they are 'Colder than pewter', a simile that tells us that he is dead.
She tries to remember his name: 'Peter? Salome then turns to her need to treat her hangover, wanting tea with 'dry toast'. The fact that she 'rang for a maid' makes it clear that she is from a high-class family. Salome was the step-daughter of King Herod. Set in the modern society, and made contemporary Salome is a poem about a drunken woman who decapitates the heads of the men that she sleeps with.
Salome was a biblical character who turned insane after asking for a head on a platter from her step-father, the king. This historical context can help with the inference of the title and what the poem is about.
The sheep go to heaven and the goats go to hell. Read her full biography here. Watch an interview with Carol Ann Duffy. See how controversial poets can be; Carol Ann Duffy declares God to be gay in her poem response to the Orlando massacre. She is infamous for demanding and receiving the head of John the Baptist , according to the New Testament. Salome is often identified with the dancing woman from the New Testament Mark and Matthew , where, however, her name is not given.
Christian traditions depict her as an icon of dangerous female seductiveness, notably in regard to the dance mentioned in the New Testament, which is thought to have had an erotic element to it, and in some later transformations it has further been iconized as the Dance of the Seven Veils. Mark ; Matthew A similar motif was struck by Oscar Wilde in his Salome , in which she plays the role of femme fatale.
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