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    The poem "Queen Kong" by Carol Ann Duffy presents a power shift from male to female perspectives. It highlights how certain members of society, including women, are often exploited despite popular beliefs. Queen Kong displays control and ownership over the man she encounters, referring to him as "my little man." The poem uses humor and absurdity, such as a gorilla walking through town unnoticed. It also depicts Queen Kong's animalistic instincts and desires through her physical reactions and explicit actions with the man. Overall, the poem conveys Queen Kong's superiority and control over the man, contrasting traditional gender roles and perceptions of power.

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    The poem "Queen Kong" by Carol Ann Duffy presents a power shift from male to female perspectives. It highlights how certain members of society, including women, are often exploited despite popular beliefs. Queen Kong displays control and ownership over the man she encounters, referring to him as "my little man." The poem uses humor and absurdity, such as a gorilla walking through town unnoticed. It also depicts Queen Kong's animalistic instincts and desires through her physical reactions and explicit actions with the man. Overall, the poem conveys Queen Kong's superiority and control over the man, contrasting traditional gender roles and perceptions of power.

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    The poem "Queen Kong" by Carol Ann Duffy presents a power shift from male to female perspectives. It highlights how certain members of society, including women, are often exploited despite popular beliefs. Queen Kong displays control and ownership over the man she encounters, referring to him as "my little man." The poem uses humor and absurdity, such as a gorilla walking through town unnoticed. It also depicts Queen Kong's animalistic instincts and desires through her physical reactions and explicit actions with the man. Overall, the poem conveys Queen Kong's superiority and control over the man, contrasting traditional gender roles and perceptions of power.

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    Queen Kong

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    The poem "Queen Kong" by Carol Ann Duffy presents a power shift from male to female perspectives. It highlights how certain members of society, including women, are often exploited despite popular beliefs. Queen Kong displays control and ownership over the man she encounters, referring to him as "my little man." The poem uses humor and absurdity, such as a gorilla walking through town unnoticed. It also depicts Queen Kong's animalistic instincts and desires through her physical reactions and explicit actions with the man. Overall, the poem conveys Queen Kong's superiority and control over the man, contrasting traditional gender roles and perceptions of power.

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    *Queen Kong:

     The poem presents the reader with a power shift from male to female but could also
    highlight that the story is not simply restricted to a male perspective. In this light,
    Duffy is, like in ‘Mrs Midas’, highlighting how certain members of society are
    exploited and how, despite popular belief, women often have control over men. This
    is reinforced when Queen Kong states how he is “my (her) little man”. This reveals
    her affection towards the man but also significantly displays his physical inferiority.
    The use of the possessive pronoun “my” again possibly reveals her care for the man
    but also possibly signifies her ownership of the man and thus shows how she is
    control.
     Duffy’s use of humour is also apparent throughout this poem. This is evident when
    the people in the village do not hear because they are “used to strangers”-The image
    of a gorilla walking the streets and no one noticing is completely absurd. There is a
    further element of humour when Queen Kong states how she is “especially fond of
    pastrami on rye”. Here, Duffy is satirising the Bohemian lifestyle. This comic effect is
    also conveyed in stanza 7 when Queen Kong states “I was discreet, prowled those
    streets in darkness”. Additionally the notion of her going shopping without anyone
    noticing adds to the absurdity of the idea and the image of a huge gorilla walking
    through a shop adds to comical effect Duffy is trying to create.
     The animalistic instincts and desires of Queen Kong are notable on several occasions
    in the poem. “The long nights in the heat” reveal her physical reaction and
    emphasises her animalistic behaviour in that it is her natural instinct to mate. The
    way Queen Kong explicitly reveals how she “put the tip of (her) tongue to the grape
    of his flesh” again emphasises her animalistic behaviour with the alliteration
    stressing how they went straight to having sex. This accentuates the idea that it was
    lust and not romance that brought them to have sex. – Queen Kong just using the
    man to satisfy her own desires –control that she has over concept reinforced by the
    idea that she was “lonely”- italicised stressing her desperation?
     The control and superiority of queen Kong is again apparent in stanza 9 “I picked him
    up like a chocolate from the top layer” – whilst the simile portrays the man as
    desirable and metaphorically tasty, ultimately he has no control. This concept is
    developed when queen Kong refers to the helicopters as “dragonflies”. This
    metaphor reveals the extent of her power and physicality. Moreover, it can be
    connected to the threat made earlier on in the poem that she “could swat his plane
    from the sky like a gnat”- effective in disclosing her control and how he is physically
    inferior. –shift of power from male to female- male’s often use their physical
    strength as a threat and in that way are normally superior to women.

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