Dame Carol Ann Duffy is the first female Scottish and homosexual poet to be elected Britain's Poet Laureate in 2009, as well as a playwright. Today I would like to analyze Duffy's poem "Medusa" for you. The poem “Medusa”, which was first included in Duffy's 1999 collection The World's Wife, is an eight-stanza poem that does not have a specific rhyme scheme and its language is at a level that can be easily understood. The poem is written as a monologue of a woman betrayed by her husband. The themes of the poem are jealousy and anger, which should not be hard to guess. The poem "Medusa" is a representation of how destructive the jealousy and anger of a woman can have when her beloved husband is betrayed by her lover. In this poem, which is almost a reflection of the speaker's mind - that is, we witness the events from the speaker's perspective - there are very successful physical analogies such as hair turning to snakes, the buzzing bee and singing bird, which can also be considered as metaphors. I consider the most striking one among these metaphors is the metaphor of Medusa, who turns everyone she meets into stone in Greek mythology, a woman's anger could only be described so beautifully. The speaker talks about how, after the betrayal she suffered, she shattered everything she looked at with the fire in her eyes and led them to disaster. The reason why she associates herself with Medusa is that both turned into terrible creatures after the disaster that happened to them when they were young and beautiful. Although the events that happened to them are not the same, while Medusa really turns into a creature, the speaker metaphorically gives the message that she has turned into a creature. Another issue that I would like to dwell on is that the poem is divided almost equally except for the last line, which I consider is the reason for drawing attention to the importance of the last stanza. In the poem, in which we witness the inner collapse of the poet in general, the speaker emphasizes that she has become alienated from the young self she once was. As we can understand from the quotation “Look at me now.” (43), in the last stanza, she wanted to make this emphasis literally, that is, she wanted to emphasize that it has nothing to do with her old self and form anymore. The anger and jealousy she felt inside transformed her into a completely different person.