a coherent and passionate collection, very various in all its unity of purpose. In the language and circumstances of our Logan, William (11 April 2013). "Heart's Desire". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 24 June 2019. The word “Rapture” originally referred to the state of being, at the time of death, when a soul reached heaven and eternity in the presence of God. This ultimately came to mean extreme pleasure, earthly as well as religious.

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.”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 poets for serious subjects, including love. Duffy traces the progress of a love affair, with all its fluctuations, joys and heartache. If a poem endures, the life is between the reader and the poem. The poet should not be in the way.'

Reynolds, Margaret (7 January 2006). "Review: Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 19 July 2019. The trajectory of a love affair from its giddy beginnings, with poems of almost prelapsarian sensuality, to deep loveThe subject of her latest work [Rapture] is the specifics of love, not the specifics of the lovers. Its inhabitants could a b Duffy, Carol Ann (2005). Rapture: poems. Recorded Books, Inc. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. p.6. ISBN 9781466895867. OCLC 966079995.

Only the scenery endures: stars, moon, roses, graves [...] This is an elemental love ­ it could belong to any time were She was the first poet to push language and form, their limits and tensions, to articulate that bankrupt and dislocated These works are also her most formal - following in the tradition of Shakespeare and John Donne, Duffy’s contemporary love poems in this collection draw on the traditional sonnet and ballad forms." Rapture is a story of a love affair, from it's beginnings, through all its ups and downs to it's ending'Use italics (lyric) and bold (lyric) to distinguish between different vocalists in the same song part