the poems are rich, beautiful and heart-rending in their exploration of the deepest recesses of human emotion, both joy and pain. " Rapture is a story of a love affair, from it's beginnings, through all its ups and downs to it's ending' She was the first poet to push language and form, their limits and tensions, to articulate that bankrupt and dislocated The poem is a traditional sonnet comprising fourteen lines, and following loosely an ABAB CDCD EFEFGG rhyming pattern. It also follows the metrical rhythm usually associated with sonnets, iambic pentameter, that is five metrical feet or iambs per line, where a iamb is one unstressed followed by one stressed syllable. a b Duffy, Carol Ann (2005). Rapture: poems. Recorded Books, Inc. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. p.6. ISBN 9781466895867. OCLC 966079995.

verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ In Duffy’s poem the love she describes is fluctuating, romantic but also painful. Although it ultimately relates to a relationship on earth the religious hints are clearly present. If a poem endures, the life is between the reader and the poem. The poet should not be in the way.' Free of particularity, of identifying characteristics about the lover who could be anyone but is not quite everyone'

Duffy is operating on a different plane, ahistorical, archetypal, where ‘moon’ and ‘rose’ and ‘kiss’ come clear of the abuses of tradition to be restored to the poet’s lexicon, as the things of the world are restored to the lover.” Rapture is studied as part of the OCR (EMC) A-Level qualification in English Language and Literature, across schools and colleges in England. She is a truly brilliant modern poet who has stretched our imaginations by putting the whole range of human experiences into lines that capture the emotions perfectly.” a coherent and passionate collection, very various in all its unity of purpose. In the language and circumstances of ourUse italics (lyric) and bold (lyric) to distinguish between different vocalists in the same song part The voice is that of a first person speaker, we can assume the poet, using the pronoun “I”, and referring to “we” of the relationship. Poetry is above all, a series of intense moments... I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotions'