Medusa

How does the writer present military force in medusa and other poem In medusa, Duffy uses the character of a female to show power. Be terrfied. This quote is a short sentence which emphasises her power and that when she looks at you, it doesnt earn long till you are turned into stone. The sentence also creates a sinister tone in a stylus that she wants you t be afraid of her because she was erst destroyed immediately she wants to destroy others as she has the power to do so.Duffy later on uses the verb shattered which links with the word splattered. This demonstartes the strength of her power to destroy, her power is so strong that anything that comes in her way either ends up shattered or spattered. The verbs also generalise that with power comes jelousy because medusoid destroys everything that appears to be positive and beautiful. They might also enkindle that the way she has destroyed inncocent life is a way to say that she is erupt of contro herself.The poem structured around her transformation, and the escalating scale of the living things she turns to stone. She starts with a buzzing-bee and her victims increase in size until she changes a dragon into a release. Finally she turns her attention to the man who broke her heart. In her last imbibe Medusa says look at me now. this line, given great geomorphological emphasis, is hugely ambiguous.It could be a heart-felt plea for attention as well up as, of course, a heavily ironic threat and reminder of her capabilities. The paradox for Medusa is that she has become trapped by her own power. Duffy may be suggesting that the oppose and destructive qualities of revenge will eventually undo their perpetrator. In the aforementioned(prenominal) way power is a major theme in Ozymandias, what was once so magnificent a symbol of the kings great power is now sunk shattered lifeless.