Circe background
• Some versions state that she is the mother of the Minotaur and wife to King Minos.
• Other accounts say she is the daughter of Hecate (a great witch – Shakespeare uses her as the ‘Head’ witch in Macbeth)
• Circe transformed her enemies, or those who offended her, into animals through the use of magical potions. She was known for her knowledge of drugs and herbs.
Questions
How does the Circe address the reader? What is unusual about this?
How does she use the pigs? What is Duffy alluding to here? (allusion)
Find if you can examples of double entendre, metaphor and rhetorical devices.
Where does Duffy use repetition and to what effect?
Can you identify the puns used to describe the men? What does this show?
What other poems could you compare this to? Why?
How does the poem differ to the myth? Why has Duffy done this?
Homework due next Wednesday:
1.Read and annotate the following poems: Frau Freud and Eurydice.
2.Answer the questions (from the website) on the Kray Sisters.
3.Complete the ‘Top Ten Features’ chart and then formulate an exam question – plan and answer it.
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