Poetry as Form of Inclusive Politics

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Carol Ann Duffy; Adultery and Cuba Poetry as Form of Inclusive Politics Apart from C.A. Duffy's ability to portray poetry as the ultimate form of feelings, her greatest contribution lies in its ability to make something happen. This can be exemplified on not only her being appointed a Poet Laureate, but also her ability to combine poetry with different disciplines, notably cultural and social studies, biology, political sciences and others. One of the greatest, if not the greatest, poets alive, shows that poetry is not exclusive and bourgeois practice, but rather something that enables different social, cultural, gender, age and other categories to participate in its creation and interpretation. Doing so, Duffy engages in a difficult task of presenting different marginalized groups and subjects, making them visible and their voice heard, as well as employing technique of heteroglossia or raznorećie which enables the previously stated and makes subject’s voice different under the conditions listed. One of the most remarkable interventions of Carol Ann Duffy is the over-identification of distorted portrayals of subjects where she employs her criticism best. In such way, she confronts us with our own prejudice which are rarely supported with arguments but mostly revitalized by stereotypes incaculated in the system and disarms us of the same. Her poetry informs about different topics and themes which are part of everyday life, as culture is everyday life, to once again make identification and recognition of subjects with it more assessable and easy. Carol Ann Duffy masters the language and desire in her poetry to present this only available, and yet discriminatory, medium as more flexible and spatial and finally that which enables affects to be as politically heard as they are suffocated. In addition to previously stated, Duffy pays an extremely great deal of

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