Rapture (poetry collection)
Rapture is a poetry book written by the Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy, the British poet laureate from 2009 to 2019. Rapture is the 37th work of poetry in Duffy’s bibliography. Rapture compared to Duffy’s other works is very raw and emotional and serious.[1] Rapture was originally published in 2005 by Picador, a subsidiary of Pan Macmillan, based in Great Britain. It was later published in the United States in 2013 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.[2] Rapture also received the 2005 T.S. Eliot Prize.
Synopsis
Rapture follows the narrator through a love story. It begins with falling in love. “Uninvited, the thought of you stayed too late in my head, so I went to bed, dreaming you hard, hard, woke with your name, like tears, soft, salt, on my lips, the sound of its bright syllables, like a charm, like a spell.” [2] Later on, the tone of the book shifts from head over heels in love to brokenhearted. "The garden tenses, lies face down, bereaved, has wept its leaves.The Latin names of plants blur like belief. I walk on ice, it grimaces, then breaks. All my mistakes are frozen in the tight lock of my face. Bare trees hold out their arms, beseech, entreat, cannot forget. The clouds sag with the burden of their weight. The wind screams at the house, bitter, betrayed. The sky is flayed, the moon a fingernail, bitten and frayed." [3]
Themes
The main themes of Rapture are love, loss, loneliness, gender issues, and death.
T.S. Eliot Prize, Reviews
Rapture won the T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry in 2005. [4] Rapture received positive reviews from the The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Rumpus. [5] [6] [7]
References
- ^ "Carol Ann Duffy - Literature". literature.britishcouncil.org. Retrieved 2019-06-19.
- ^ a b Duffy, Carol Ann (2005). Rapture : poems. Recorded Books, Inc. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. p. 6. ISBN 9781466895867. OCLC 966079995.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Duffy, Carol Ann (2005). Rapture. London: Picador. pp. 46–47. ISBN 9781466895867.
- ^ "TS Eliot Prize | Special Reports | guardian.co.uk Books". www.theguardian.com. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
- ^ Reynolds, Margaret (2006-01-07). "Review: Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
- ^ Logan, William (2013-04-11). "Heart's Desire". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
- ^ "Rapture By Carol Ann Duffy - The Rumpus.net". therumpus.net. Retrieved 2019-06-24.