Penelope and Mrs Rip Van Winkle

1999

The World's Wife

CAROL ANN DUFFY

Beatriz FernándezDeva García Julia García Aida González Oliwia Kubiak

contents

1. selected POEMS

2. "MRS RIP VAN WINKLE"

3. "PENELOPE"

4. rewritings

5. comparative

6. SOURCES

POEMS

PENELOPE

MRS RIP VAN WINKLE

Washington Irving

Mr. Rip Van Winkle

Carol Ann Duffy

Mrs. Rip Van Winkle

• Analysis:
• Fiding herself and having her dreams ruined

• Monotonous and boring life

• Dreadful middle age of Mrs. Rip Van Winkle

• Mrs. Rip Van Winkle dwell and finding happiness

• Not fulfilling the role she is supposed to

• Freedom towards sexual relationships
• Form:
• No rhythm, not uniform lines

• Dramatic monologue (1st person singular)

• Ironic

• From monotony to passion

Main aspects

Rewritings of the story:

Homer

The Odyssey

Carol Ann Duffy

Penelope

Penelope’s Confession (Gail Holst-Warhaft)

Penelope's rewritings

Odiseo y Penélope (Mario Vargas Llosa)

The Penelopiad (Margaret Atwood)

penelope

• The Odyssey
• Penelope's point of view
• Loneliness seen as independence
• Dramatic monologue

Comparative

MRS RIP VAN WINKLE

• "Rip Van Winkle"
• Mrs Rip Van Winkle's point of view
• Loneliness as a way to explore the emotional consequences
• Dramatic monologue

Sources

• https://www.britannica.com/topic/Rip-Van-Winkle-short-story-by-Irving

• https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra-visor/rip-van-winkle--0/html/ff058a2e-82b1-1df-acc7-002185ce6064_2.htm
• https://leighsofficial.wordpress.com/2014/04/21/feminist-criticism-mrs-rip-van-winkle/
• https://www.litcharts.com/poetry/carol-ann-duffy/penelope

• https://poemanalysis.com/carol-ann-duffy/penelope/

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