Elvis's Twin Sister
"Elvis's Twin Sister" is a poem by Carol Ann Duffy[1] that is said to reflect "the hidden lives of generations of overlooked women" as part of the collection The World's Wife, of 30 similar poems dealing with the female relatives of famous men throughout history.[2][3] The poem is sometimes studied by schoolchildren in the United Kingdom as part of the AQA syllabus for GCSE English.[4]
Description
The poem's subtitle, "Are You Lonesome Tonight?", was a 1961 hit by Elvis Presley.[5] Its opening line, "In the convent, y'all", establishes its speaker in the southern United States through its use of colloquial language.[6] The poem goes on to describe Elvis's sister as a nun in a convent, tending its garden.
Performance
At Poetry Live in London, Duffy performed the poem herself on 1 December 2008.[7]
References
- ^ "Carol Ann Duffy - poems". Teachit.co.uk. 1955-12-23. Retrieved 2012-09-07.
- ^ Brone, Geert. Cognitive Poetics, p. 34.
- ^ Gill, Jo. Women's Poetry, p. 189.
- ^ Andrew Moore (1955-12-23). "Carol Ann Duffy-AQA Anthology for GCSE". Teachit.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2009-03-05. Retrieved 2012-09-07.
- ^ "Carol Ann Duffy - poems". Teachit.co.uk. 1955-12-23. Retrieved 2012-09-07.
- ^ Childs, Tony. "AS English Literature for AQA A", p. 175.
- ^ New Rickstones Academy, Academy News Archived 2011-07-27 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Text of poem
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- "Storm on the Island"
- "Perch"
- "Blackberry-Pickin"
- "Death of a Naturalist"
- "Digging"
- "Mid-Term Break"
- "Follower"
- "At a Potato Digging"
- "Catrin"
- "Baby-sitting"
- "Mali"
- "A Difficult Birth, Easter 1998"
- "The Field Mouse"
- "October"
- "On the Train"
- "Cold Knap Lake"
- "Havisham"
- "Elvis's Twin Sister"
- "Anne Hathaway"
- "Salome"
- "We Remember Your Childhood Well"
- "Before You Were Mine"
- "Education for Leisure"
- "Stealing"
- "Mother, any distance greater than a single span"
- "My father thought it..."
- "Homecoming"
- "November"
- "Kid"
- "Those bastards in their mansions"
- "I've made out a will; I'm leaving myself"
- "Hitcher"
- "On My First Sonne" by Ben Jonson
- "Song of the Old Mother" by William Butler Yeats
- "The Affliction of Margaret" by William Wordsworth
- "The Little Boy Lost and The Little Boy Found" by William Blake
- "Tichborne's Elegy" by Charles Tichborne
- "The Man He Killed" by Thomas Hardy
- "Patrolling Barnegat" by Walt Whitman
- "Sonnet CXXX" by William Shakespeare
- "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning
- "The Laboratory" by Robert Browning
- "Ulysses" by Alfred Tennyson
- "The Village Schoolmaster" by Oliver Goldsmith
- "The Eagle" by Alfred Tennyson
- "Sonnet" by John Clare
- "Flight" by Doris Lessing
- "Superman and Paula Brown's New Snowsuit" by Sylvia Plath
- "Your Shoes" by Michèle Roberts
- "Growing Up" by Joyce Cary
- "The End of Something" by Ernest Hemingway
- "Chemistry" by Graham Swift
- "Snowdrops" by Leslie Norris
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