Explain the way in which Duffy presents the strengths and limitations E

Explain the way in which Duffy presents the strengths and limitationsof language in two verse forms.When drawing from both Warming Her Pearls and Selling Manhattan ,it is evident that Carol Anne Duffy maintains a certain avant-garde lift to the vast array of possibilities that language presents.She acutely exposes the ambiguity that language holds in its meanings,presenting the reader with endless connotations to consider. Duffyalso draws attention to its unfitness to fully express the finish ofhuman emotions.Both of the above stated poems focus on societal and culturalstratification, with Duffys use of language carefully designed toemphasise the distance surrounded by different social groups. SellingManhattan being a dramatic monologue, articulates the thoughts of theDutch settler, Peter Minuit, who is reputed to have bought Manhattanfrom the North American Indians, for twenty-four dollars worth ofglass beads, in 1626. A strong division and contrast exists when thisis compared to the feelings of an indigenous North American Indian.Duffy uses language to demonstrate this contrast. In Minuits glee, hestates I got myself a bargain. This heavily exhibits his rapaciousattitude and his inability to consider the cost to others that hisactions create. The value that he places on money is also shown. Thisis a key theme to the entire section, also entitled SellingManhattan, with Duffy fiercely criticising the capitalist attitude toeconomics. Duffys use of language with the words I and myself inMinuits stanza draws attention to just how self absorbed the Dutchmanreally is.When the reader is first introduced to the Indian a similitude isautomatically made. The first line i... ...uses on intimate detail. It could also howeverbe interpreted as being the result of an obscene and abnormalobsession. When considering that this poem is not based upon a modernsociety, holding modern values that are now far more accepting towardshomosexuality, the ambiguity in the foresigh t of this line creates ahindrance to any sympathy that a reader may feel. A reader may take ona like attitude to that which is evident in the society thatWarming Her Pearls describes, perceiving an iniquitous abnormality.Additionally, as this possibility exists that her seeming love is infact an obsession, the reader has no choice unless to question theirbelief in her affections. The influence and energy of this poem istherefore abridged by this ambiguity, due to the lack of absolutemeaning in language, as illustrated by the French philosopher, JacquesDerrida.