The suggestion is that, although such moments fall short of actual religious experience (Latin is associated with Christianity thanks to the Latin mass, but the memory here is of learning the language, not necessarily in the context of Catholicism), they verge on the spiritual even though they are grounded in more secular and everyday routines and situations. Tristram Fane Saunders, in the Telegraph, rightly challenges the curious levels of secrecy and government involvement in choosing a Laureate, yet his question “how can you choose… when it’s still not altogether clear what a Laureate is?

Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy - Pan Macmillan

Duffy has been quoted as saying that she is ‘not interested, as a poet, in words like “plash” – Seamus Heaney words, interesting words. Consciousness often reaches a deeply intense level at the edges of things, questioning and undermining accepted ways of doing things. The title gives a clue as to the subject of this poem: it’s about text-messaging; aptly, it’s short and telegrammatic, like a text message (with even the shape of the poem suggesting the format of a text message on a mobile phone). Why do you think it’s important that more people, especially more children, start writing their own poetry especially from a young age. However, throughout the poem, she quotes the first or the important lines from famous love sonnets and lyrics.That they don’t really care about it because there is an emotion that is prevailing and making something that might seem important on an ordinary night seem unimportant. In the third line, Duffy uses Scottish colloquialism in the form of the word “skelf” this word describes a splinter and she is using it here to suggest that there isn’t even a hint of light. To best represent the love feelings of the earlier love poets, the poet has extracted and used several verses from the past love poems and used them to express the feeling of love that has changed over the period. British Council complies with data protection law in the UK and laws in other countries that meet internationally accepted standards.

Interview with Carol Ann Duffy - The Lincoln Review Interview with Carol Ann Duffy - The Lincoln Review

If Sidney felt this problem over four hundred years ago, how much steeper is the hill that a modern-day poet must climb. They subsequently had four sons, and moved when Carol Ann was six to Stafford, where her father worked for English Electric and managed Stafford Rangers Football Club in his spare time. She is a versatile poet who is comfortable writing in strict forms such as a sonnet and has done so with aplomb. Carol Ann Duffy is also an acclaimed playwright, and has had plays performed at the Liverpool Playhouse and the Almeida Theatre in London.my new-found land” from another John Donne poem, ‘ To His Mistress Going to Bed’, and “behold, thou art fair” from the ‘ Song of Solomon‘ in the Bible, and “the desire of the moth for the star” from ‘ One Word is Too Often Profaned’ by Shelley.