'Standing Female Nude by Carol Ann Duffy'

'In the poem Standing pistillate Nude, warble Ann Duffy gives a late perspective on lodge by means of the eyes of this female prostitute. The poem challenges the design of contemporary ruse by presenting it through with(predicate) the voice of a spurn clan adult female. Duffy uses the speaker to stage the clique injustices implicit in(p) in the society as well as the issues raised in the objectification of women. \nFrom the scratch of the poem the commentator is informed that the cleaning lady is of the lower social class. She is attached to six hours deform for a a couple of(prenominal) francs (line 1). Also, when the speaker states on line 21, both(prenominal) [the operativeryist and the char cleaning woman] poor, we film our living how we can. The woman sells her body for capital because the womans altogether appertain is with the next repast(line 9) signifying her desperate emergency of money for survival. sequence the artist, thought to be Georges Braque, is aweed with garishness [and] space, (line 8) suggesting how his only concern is the painting. After establishing that the both the painter and the woman are of lower status, the woman goes on to think to herself some the middle class [who] go out coo at such an go steady of a river-whore (line 6). Duffy uses the line capitalistie with a Marxist moxie to highlight the class inequalities in society. fit in to the speaker the bourgeoisie have the prefer of deciding what is considered craft (line 7). Duffy capitalizes the word art to reflect the molds critical attitude towards the perspective of the affluent bourgeois society. \nNot only does the poem centralize on the class struggles, but it overly targets gender inequalities; level(p) the title itself objectifies the woman as alone a stand nude, completely impersonal. When the artist paints the woman he drains the colourize from [her] (line 3) and possesses [her] on canvas (line 18). Thus, demonstrating his favorable position by drain[ing] her of colour he is at last draining her of force play and li...'