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IBDP1 - Little Red Cap Commentary

Little Red Cap by Carol Ann Duffy communicates meaning through its representation of Duffy's transition from childhood to adulthood and search for her voice. The poem uses the theme of Little Red Riding Hood as a metaphor for sexual inexperience and innocence. Duffy employs various poetic devices that evolve throughout the work, such as iambic pentameter, rhyme, enjambment, and metaphors, to express ideas around innocence, development, and coming of age.

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IBDP1 - Little Red Cap Commentary

Little Red Cap by Carol Ann Duffy communicates meaning through its representation of Duffy's transition from childhood to adulthood and search for her voice. The poem uses the theme of Little Red Riding Hood as a metaphor for sexual inexperience and innocence. Duffy employs various poetic devices that evolve throughout the work, such as iambic pentameter, rhyme, enjambment, and metaphors, to express ideas around innocence, development, and coming of age.

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How does ​Little Red Cap​ by Carol Ann Duffy communicate meaning?

Little Red Cap​ by Carol Ann Duffy is a poem which presents the themes of transition from childhood to
adulthood. The poem is a literary representation of a certain period of Duffy’s life. Duffy searches for her
voice and individuality through her sexual awakening and coming of age. The poem takes the theme of
Little Red Riding Hood​, which is a tale about a little girl who is deceived into walking into the woods
with a wolf, who then eats her. The poem can be seen as a metaphor for sexual inexperience and
innocence.

Carol uses a variety of different poetic devices to express the ideas of the poem. She begins the
poem with an example of iambic pentameter: “at childhood’s end, the houses petered out”. This
demonstrates her lack of psychological development, as with its rhythmic tone, it sounds rather childish.
As the poem progresses, Carol displays improvement in vocabulary, as she begins to produce both
internal and external rhymes and introduces the use of enjambments. Carol also utilizes metaphors like
“white dove” to visualize her purity and naïvety.

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