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Rapture is a collection of poetry written by the Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy, the British poet laureate from 2009 to 2019. It marks her 37th work of poetry and has been described as "intensely personal, emotional and elegiac, and markedly different from Duffy’s other works" by the British Council. [1]
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1 de jan. de 2005 · About. Genius Annotation. 2 contributors. This is the third poem in Duffy’s collection entltled Rapture. Of the fifty-two poems eighteen are sonnets. The sonnet template is favoured by...
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The poem presents itself in one single stanza but is effectively a sonnet as it contains fourteen lines. It seems to be a classic Shakespearean sonnet with the rhyming pattern ABABCDCDEFEFGG. It also ties into this tradition by being written in iambic pentameter. The poem, as is commonly the case with sonnets, is a love poem of sorts.
Line 1
The poem opens up with a very thought-provoking line, which is ironically about thought. The narrator makes an assumption about the other person, the person who is effectively the subject of the poem. They assume that their subjectis thinking of them and as a consequence, they think about them right back. We don’t know as yet if the narrator has a good reason to make this assumption so right from the off we see Duffy creating questions which is a way of drawing in a reader and getting them to...
Line 2
Bird’s song is a classic piece of symbolism. In fact, it is so classic it could almost be considered a cliché. Duffy of course would know this and I think she uses it here with just a pinch of irony. Perhaps then the birds are not symbolic at all and the narrator is just taking in the scenery! Either way, this is a nice nod to romantic poetrydrawing on nature to evoke certain emotions, in this case, love.
Line 3
Duffy uses a beautiful description here referring to the clouds as a prayer of rain. This is a nice nod to the poem’s religious title and actually in itself is quite a clever collective noun for clouds. The end of the line is enjambment and this helps the paceof the poem, although it is an enjambment line it does not dismiss the rhyming pattern.
Carol Ann Duffy is a renowned poet hailing from Glasgow in Scotland. However, she was raised in England where she spent the majority of her young life. She was interested in poetry from a young age and so it was perhaps no surprise when she became a poet. Her poems often cover contemporary issues. She frequently writes in the first person and utili...
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27 de ago. de 2022 · Collection. printdisabled; internetarchivebooks. Contributor. Internet Archive. Language. English. 62 pages ; 21 cm. Carol Ann Duffy's 'Rapture' is about the loss and rediscovery of love in all its aspects - erotic, intellectual, emotional.
1 de nov. de 2006 · Books. Rapture. The effortless virtuosity, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her our most admired contemporary poet. Rapture, her seventh collection, is a book-length...
Books. Rapture. The T. S. Eliot Prize-winning collection from the Poet Laureate.Carol Ann Duffy's seventh collection is a book-length love poem, and a moving act of personal testimony; but...
13 de jul. de 2017 · The effortless virtuosity, directness, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her our most admired and best-loved contemporary poet. Rapture, her seventh collection, is a book-length love-poem, and a moving act of personal testimony; but what sets these poems apart from other treatments of the subject is that Duffy ...
