Wednesday, 18 February 2015

How is Carol Ann Duffy's poem "A Healthy Meal" a political poem?

Carol Anny
Duffys poem titled A Healthy Meal is a political work in a number of senses. Most obviously,
the poem is a clearon the habit of eating meat €“ an issue which is increasingly controversial
and increasingly the subject of political debate. Duffys poem contributes to that debate by
implying that the consumption of animals by humans should be avoided and/or condemned. In the
case of eating animals (the poem implies), ingestion is injustice.

The poem
is political, however, in another sense as well. The people whom the poem mocks seem to be
wealthy people. Thus the poem...



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