Duffy’s manuscripts for TWW definitely looked more like drafts than her TOC drafts because she wrote several drafts for certain poems and made more annotations to note changes. I searched through several pages for poems too because the verses were much longer in her fifth volume. The second poem I researched in Duffy’s manuscripts was “Mrs Quasimodo.” I counted almost four drafts of this poem alone, so it is evident that Duffy had to put more effort into the writing process of TWW.

Initially, I noticed in reading Duffy’s manuscript of “Mrs Quasimodo” is that she deleted the first stanza she wrote in the draft for the final print. She begins with the description of the bells:

“They signaled, summoned to worship, told/ the hours, announced the dramas of our days/ rejoicing, mourning, warning. I believed/ that they could even make it rain.”

These are the four lines that were originally part of the poem, but I think the reason Duffy deleted these lines in the final draft because the lines are too descriptive about the bells. Starting with the line, “I’d loved them fervently since childhood,” sound more mysterious and intriguing because the reader is signaled to question what the speaker is talking about. When I first read the poem, I did not figure out that Duffy was talking about bells in the first stanza. I had to reread the stanza to figure this out. Thus, I think Duffy wants this volume to be more mysterious in order to get the reader to think deeper about what is written.

 An interesting note I found on “Mrs Quasimodo” from Duffy is that she wrote, “We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose…imagination alone can picture this combination.” This further proves that Duffy did not want her poems to be simply read, she wanted the reader to really think about the poem because there maybe something different being said than what we think initially. Thus, TWW is meant to be like a puzzle for the reader to solve. The inversion of myths, fiction, and histories are all methods of creating very puzzling and entertaining verses for the reader.