Rapture

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The theme of time is introduced at the opening of the poem, with the metaphor ' Love’s time’s beggar' - indicating that love often pleads with time to wait. However time's control is also subverted early on, through the phrase 'but even/ a single hour' indicating that while lovers often wish for time to slow down, they are still able to enjoy the moments and escape its complete control.

I want to be both the lover and her beloved. I want to be the longing and the clamoring, lusty, romantic language. Desire’s tendrils spiral coyly, and they will climb on a mop of floppy hyacinth—or on a dead vine. One is wrapped around my finger, as I crouch before “Lady Margaret”, Passiflora (passion flower) in my garden. I’m wrapped around Duffy’s finger, body, soul, and poet-mind. Time is a key theme in the poem, as Duffy highlights how love allows two people to escape temporal boundaries. The poem itself explores a single hour spent between the narrator and their lover. Whether they spend seconds, hours, or years with each other, they are able to make the most of a moment in time, thereby transcending its boundaries. Romantic love The main themes of Rapture are love, loss, loneliness, gender issues, and death. [ citation needed] Reception [ edit ] The Love Poem’ is part of Duffy’s 2005 poetry collection Rapture, which contains a range of poems written in different forms and styles, following the story of a love affair. Rapture is a modern-day sonnet sequence. However, instead of being made up of sonnets, the collection consists of various poems of different forms, styles, and structures.The poem has a romantic tone, underpinned by its stylistic similarities to poems associated with the romanticism literary movement. Duffy's use of allusions to the natural world are particularly effective at creating a traditionally romantic style. Imagery Duffy personifies love in these lines. Why do you think she does this? ‘Hour’ by Carol Ann Duffy: tone and imagery The effortless virtuosity, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her our most admired contemporary poet. Throughout the poem, there are a number of words that reference the physical body. These include “flesh,”“bones”“fingers,”“skull” and “blood.” While Duffy’s speaker might be romanticizing the physical parts of her relationship, she accepts what death will bring. She understands fully that every physical piece of her lover’s body, and her own body, will eventually be reduced to “brittle things.” Her adult poetry collections are Standing Female Nude (1985), winner of a Scottish Arts Council Award; Selling Manhattan (1987), which won a Somerset Maugham Award; The Other Country (1990); Mean Time (1993), which won the Whitbread Poetry Award and the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year); The World's Wife (1999); Feminine Gospels (2002), a celebration of the female condition; Rapture (2005), winner of the 2005 T. S. Eliot Prize; The Bees (2011), winner of the 2011 Costa Poetry Award and shortlisted for the 2011 T. S. Eliot Prize; The Christmas Truce (2011), Wenceslas: A Christmas Poem (2012), illustrated by Stuart Kolakovic; Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday (2014) and Sincerity (2018). Her children's poems are collected in New & Collected Poems for Children (2009). In 2012, to mark the Diamond Jubilee, she compiled Jubilee Lines, 60 poems from 60 poets each covering one year of the Queen's reign. In the same year, she was awarded the PEN/Pinter Prize.

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] Rapture was first published in 2005 in the UK by Picador, and in 2013 in the US, by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. [2]The poem continues, focusing purely on how love is able to oppose time between lines five and ten, thus underpinning the importance of the theme of time in the poem, as it is present throughout. Sonnet sequence: a group of sonnets written by one poet with a unifying theme or story. 'Hour' by Carol Ann Duffy: summary 'Hour' by Carol Ann Duffy: Summary and Analysis Modernism: A literary movement that seeks to depart significantly from traditional forms, styles, and expectations of writing.