<em>"</em><em>Recognition Carol Ann </em><em>Duffy"</em>describes the regrets one women has for the way that her life has progressed and the person she has become throughout this poem the speaker struggles to recognise herself and remember the life she lived in the past .Then she goes through a number different experiences and her attempts to improve herself as the woman and the partner to a man who she does not want to disappoint the poem concludes with a speaker as an old woman apologizing to her younger–self for the choices she made .
