Mrs Aesop Analysis Essay

The foundations wife is a collection of poems by Duffy written by the female halves of well-known hands of time in some(prenominal) reality and myth. Duffy has created a literal version of an old saying behind every great man there is an take down greater woman. These poems are both shocking and thought provoking as Duffy steps into the shoes of every woman, whose partner has affected history or the world in any way and given them a voice. Aesop was a fabulist credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesops Fables. Although his earthly concern remains uncertain and no writings by him survive, numerous tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. In many of the tales, animals speak and have human characteristics.The impious (disrespectful) opening, By Christ foregrounds Mrs Aesops disrespectful attitude towards her husband. She says he can bore for Purgatory this is a men tion to the Catholic belief in a conceptual space between heaven and hell in which souls are condemned to suffer for their sins after death. Through this Mrs Aesop is literally expressing that her husband is capable of making such a place as purgatory worse than it already is. Aesops wife belittles him he was small and the use of the natural rhyme didnt prepossess. So he tried to impress is both comic and cutting.Through the continuous references to Aesops fables, Mrs Aesop is clearly mocking and disrespecting his works that were ordinary with so many. On the fourth line of the first stanza, Mrs Aesop puts her own twist of unmatched of her husbands many fables a bird in the hand is worth deuce in the bush, changing it to, the bird in his hand shat on his sleeve. By putting this nasty little twist on his work, she is disrespecting both her husband and his work, reflecting her feelings that she appears to have been bottling up for a while. The sheer number of allusions reflects the deadening effect that his fables have on Aesops wife. In the first stanza, the end direction on Tedious, emphasised by the caesura that precedes it, highlights how sheperceives his stories. The fables are chosen to reflect Aesops dull, cautious nature he is the shy mouse, the jackdaw, one of the take overkeys that would, on the whole, prefer to be lions. It appears that through Duffy writing this poem, Mrs Aesop is finally able to convey her inner thoughts to an audience, bringing her huge relief.In the second stanza, Duffy mocks Mr. Aesop, look, then natural spring. Duffy has used alliteration to emphasise the childlessness and immaturity of her husband and that his work represents him, making that childish and immature also. Duffy continues this idea onto the third stanza, describing their evening stroll as appalling, and utilise the tortoise from one of Mr. Aesops most famous fables the hair and the tortoise as a simile, by describing the way it crawled as slow as marri age, indicating that her marriage is tedious and boring, corresponding his work.Duffy uses numerous successful techniques to convey Mrs Aesops views of her husband Mr Aesop and his work. However, like in many of Duffys poems where she convinces the reader to back the women, due to her feminist views, I dont believe that she does this in this particular poem. I sympathise with Mr Aesop as his wife is mocking and disrespecting him and his work, something that he takes a lot of pride in.