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  1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aftK1kWWSPs

  2. Cuba Carol Ann Duffy

  3. CUBA  No getting up from the bed in this grand hoteland getting dressed, like a work of artrubbing itself out. No lifting the red rosefrom the room service tray when you leave,as though you might walk to the lip of a graveand toss it down. No glass of champagne, leftto go flat in the glow of a bedside lamp,the frantic bubbles swimming for the light. No white towel,strewn, like a shroud, on the bathroom floor.no brief steam on the mirror there for a fingerto smudge in a heart, an arrow, a name. No soft soaprubbed between four hands. No flannel. No future plans.No black cab, sad hearse, on the rank. No queue there.No getting away from this. No goodnight kiss. No Cuba.

  4. CUBA Mark-up • Repetition (Anaphora) • Alliteration • Consonance • Enumeration • Simile • Enjambment (general) • Metonymy • Personification • Allusion • Imagery • Assonance No getting up from the bed in this grand hoteland getting dressed, like a work of artrubbing itself out. No lifting the red rosefrom the room service tray when you leave,as though you might walk to the lip of a graveand toss it down. No glass of champagne, leftto go flat in the glow of a bedside lamp,the frantic bubbles swimming for the light. Nowhitetowel,strewn, like a shroud, on the bathroom floorno briefsteam on the mirror there for a fingerto smudge in a heart, an arrow, a name. Nosoft soaprubbed between four hands. Noflannel. No future plans.Noblack cab, sad hearse, on the rank. No queue there.No getting away from this. No goodnight kiss. NoCuba.

  5. Form • Sonnet • 14 lines, 1 stanza • No formal rhyme scheme, no pattern in meter or specific structure • 9-16 syllables ranging per line • “Modern Sonnet” • Recurring enjambment “…glass of champagne, left /to go flat…” “… lifting the red rosefrom the room…” • Anaphora (repetition) of “No” – tragic, dejected • Internal rhyme with assonance & consonance

  6. Literal Meaning • End of a romantic relationship, thinking about a planned trip • Vacation will not occur due to break-up • Relating of ideas prepared for trip, sentimental description since they will never give • Archetypal honeymoon idea in hotel in Cuba • Woman in need of the love, of the partner • (through synecdoche “no flannel”)

  7. Figurative Meaning Tragic and sad mood - Becoming lost due to lack of love • Lamenting nostalgic end of a relationship • Lack of love, lack of relationship Gateway to emotional breakdown • She views love as an essential part of her life, without it there is complete vagueness • The love and the relationship have died • Not having the love and the partner = tragic and sad poem

  8. Rhythmic devices “Noflannel. Nofuture plans.Noblack cab, sad hearse, on the rank. Noqueue there. (Lines 12-13)” • Enumeration, Anaphora and Form • Enumeration: short yet dense poetic and emotional phrases -> impact in context, suffering is highlighted • Anaphora = Negation: Repetition of no, = Tragic and sad idea of whole poem. Not having something, being lost in a haze due to the lack of love, tragedy. • FORM AND STRUCTURE

  9. Imagery Beautiful Imagery Negative Imagery “…work of artrubbing itself out. (Lines 2-3)” “No lifting the red rosefrom the room service tray (Lines 3-4)” “…in the glow of a bedside lamp (Line 7)” “no brief steam on the mirror…(Line 10)” “…soft soaprubbed between four hands…(Line 12)” “…might walk to the lip of a graveand toss it down… (Line 5)” “No white towel,strewn, like a shroud, on the bathroom floor.(Line 9)” • Beautiful imagery: Highlights the fantasy, contrasting and making poem more tragic • Negative Imagery: References to death

  10. Metonymy, Allusion Metonymy: “No flannel (Line 12)” Flannel :A kind of soft-woven fabric, typically made of wool or cotton and slightly milled and raised. NO PARTNER FOR LOVE Allusion: “No Cuba (Line 14)”, Cuba: Fantasy. Beaches, honeymoon. Isolation from everything, and basically an escape. No extraordinary love now and no Cuba because it died

  11. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS • How does the narrator portray love as a whole in the poem? Does she believe it is good or bad? • How effective is sonnet form, and such dense poetic material devices in expressing ideas?

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