'Standing Female Nude by Carol Ann Duffy'

'In the song stand Female b be, Carol Ann Duffy gives a new horizon on beau monde through the eye of this female prostitute. The verse challenges the concept of modern-day art by presenting it through the enunciate of a level split cleaning char charwoman. Duffy uses the talker to demonstrate the class injustices inherent in the society as well as the issues raised in the objectification of women.\nFrom the beginning of the poem the reader is certified that the woman is of the visit class. She is committed to sextuplet hours work for a few francs ( trace 1). Also, when the utterer states on line 21, both [the operative and the woman] poor, we make our active how we can. The woman sells her torso for cash because the womans unaccompanied concern is with the conterminous meal(line 9) signifying her horrific need of money for survival. While the artist, mentation to be Georges Braque, is concern with volume [and] space, (line 8) suggesting how his tho concern i s the painting. afterward establishing that the both the mountain lion and the woman are of lower status, the woman goes on to speak out to herself about the middle class [who] will coo at much(prenominal) an image of a river-whore (line 6). Duffy uses the term bourgeoisie with a bolshy sense to bring out the class inequalities in society. According to the loudspeaker the bourgeoisie make up the privilege of deciding what is considered Art (line 7). Duffy capitalizes the countersign art to ruminate the models sarcastic stance towards the opinion of the generous bourgeois society.\n non only does the poem focus on the class struggles, but it also targets sexual practice inequalities; even the form of address itself objectifies the woman as simply a standing nude, all told impersonal. When the artist paints the woman he drains the deform from [her] (line 3) and possesses [her] on probe (line 18). Thus, demonstrating his superiority by drain[ing] her of colour he is ul timately run her of power and li... '