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2. The Long Queen’s realm1. What patterns of language can
What is she Queen of? Who does
you find? Highlight about three
she rule? What are her laws?
e.g. language relating to pain
The Long Queen
The Long Queen couldn't die.
Young when she bowed her head
for the cold weight of the crown, she'd looked
at the second son of the earl, the foreign prince,
the heir to the duke, the lord, the baronet, the count,
then taken Time for a husband. Long live the Queen.
What was she queen of? Women, girls,
spinsters and hags, matrons, wet nurses,
witches, widows, wives, mothers of all these.
Her word of law was in their bones, in the graft
of their hands, in the wild kicks of their dancing.
No girl born who wasn't the Long Queen's always child.
Unseen, she ruled and reigned; some said
in a castle, some said in a tower in the dark heart
of a wood, some said out and about in rags, disguised,
sorting the bad from the good. She sent her explorers away
in their creaking ships and was queen of more, of all the dead
when they lived if they did so female. All hail to the Queen.
What were her laws? Childhood: whether a girl
awoke from the bad dream of the worst, or another
swooned into memory, bereaved, bereft, or a third one
wrote it all down like a charge-sheet, or the fourth never left,
scouring the markets and shops for her old books and toys –
no girl growing who wasn't the apple of the Long Queen's eye.
3. Key words to describe the mood, 4. How does the structure support 5. How does Duffy present the
tone and themes. the poem’s themes and topics? Look feminine?
at rhythm, rhyme, stanzas, sentence
length, etc.
, 1. What patterns of language can 2. The Long Queen’s realm
you find? Highlight about three What is she Queen of? Who does
she rule? What are her laws?
e.g. language relating to sickness
Blood: proof, in the Long Queen's colour,
royal red, of intent; the pain when a girl
first bled to be insignificant, no cause for complaint,
and this to be monthly, linked to the moon, till middle age
when the law would change. Tears: salt pearls, bright jewels
for the Long Queen's fingers to weigh as she counted their sorrow.
Childbirth: most to lie on the birthing beds,
push till the room screamed scarlet and children
bawled and slithered into their arms, sore flowers;
some to be godmother, aunt, teacher, teller of tall tales,
but all who were there to swear that the pain was worth it.
No mother bore daughter not named to honour the Queen.
And her pleasures were stories, true or false,
that came in the evening, drifting up on the air
to the high window she watched from, confession
or gossip, scandal or anecdote, secrets, her ear tuned
to the light music of girls, the drums of women, the faint strings
of the old. Long Queen. All her possessions for a moment of time.
3. Key words to describe the mood, 4. How does the structure support 5. How does Duffy present the
tone and themes. the poem’s themes and topics? feminine?
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