Shakespeare’s wife - Metaphor - it was the rumours he disliked world they spent their her but Duffy tries to time in and created for dispel these. Anne Hathaway themselves. “spinning” implies passion. Allusions to 2nd best bed was Shakespeare’s work - more personal as Macbeth, Hamlet, The guests stayed in the 'Item I gyve unto my wife my second best bed ...' Tempest. first. (from Shakespeare's will) Metaphor - shooting stars are special and Metaphor - oral sex. rare - just like his work. Pearls have The bed we loved in was a spinning world He was inspired by connotations of their passion. being precious, rare of forests, castles, torchlight, clifftops, seas or having value - this was the inspiration where we would dive for pearls. My lover's words for his work. Her femininity is were shooting stars which fell to earth as kisses contrasted to his masculinity. Another Verb = a doing word. on these lips; my body now a softer rhyme reference to sound Noun = person and words tying in to Literary representation to his, now echo, assonance; his touch the idea of their love of them having sex. being like poetry. Enjambment of “touch” a verb dancing in the centre of a noun. to pause on the sensation of his touch. Some nights, I dreamed he'd written me, the bed She was his muse/ inspiration - their a page beneath his writer's hands. Romance love created some of Things which bring on his greatest work. excitement. and drama played by touch, by scent, by taste. Too perfect to be real? In the other bed, the best, our guests dozed on, The one that people thought he was dribbling their prose. My living laughing love - List to reflect depriving her of. continuous passion I hold him in the casket of my widow's head of their love. Incorporates all “Dozed” has as he held me upon that next best bed. senses - takes over connotations of completely. boredom, lack of Alliteration - Light sounds excitement. “Dribbling” Carol Ann Duffy create a gentle image of Funeral images - suggests a non- positive qualities. Sounds this poem has been continuous flow without like she is reflecting happily. a reflection as he is power behind it. Prose Determined to keep Dash suggests she is about now gone. seen to be boring to reveal something else. compared to the drama her memories alive - or poetry of even though he’s gone his work and their love Shakespeare and She holds on to these memories passionately lives on. Anne. just like their love. Rhyming couplet draws attention to the memories of them in bed - their relationship was stronger than people thought. Themes * Love * Loss Structure mirrors sonnet. 14 lines * Importance of language ending in a rhyming couplet - paying homage to Shakespeare’s work.