Transcending the Bounds of Temporality and Spatiality: Mythical Retelling of Femininity in Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife

Poetry, despite the side-liningfaced due to profusion of novel, has made a comeback marking its genuine presence with ability combine imaginative and creative project real. Contemporary poetry, pluralistic, experimental diverse in form encompassing nature culture history world been drawing intense thematic theoretical attention itself. Myths play an important role literature especially expressing modernist tendencies as done by twentieth century poet T S Eliot. Similarly, former Poet Laureate Britain, Carol Ann Duffy, subverted myths bridge gap between traumatic experiences mythical women contemporary ones. The paper Transcending Bounds Temporality Spatiality: Mythical Retelling Femininity Duffy’s World’s Wife intends portray how Duffy projects problems through parading female characters from history, mythology fairy tales. technique subversion helped her dismantle popular notions associated (self-sacrificing self-effacing). thus examines detail, using elements myth criticism, poems find out different facets presented subversion.