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Feb 14, 2022 · The current British poet laureate is the first woman, and the first Scot, to hold the prestigious position, Carol Ann Duffy. Born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1955, Duffy was educated at Liverpool University and now heads the creative writing program at Manchester Metropolitan University. She was appointed poet laureate in 2009.
Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester. She is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University, where she teaches on the Poetry route of the MFA and MA in Creative Writing and is creative director of city-wide, national and international literary projects. Her poetry has received many awards, including ...
Themes. ‘Valentine’ by Carol Ann Duffy contains several important themes. In the poem, there are themes of love, convention, individualism, and vanity of materialism. As the title of the poem says, it is a pure love poem but unique for the poet’s unique expression. The poet metaphorically compares her love to an onion.
Structure and Form. ‘The Cliché Kid’ by Carol Ann Duffy is a five- stanza dramatic monologue that is divided into sets of three lines, known as tercets. The poet is written in a simple rhyme scheme of AAA in some of the lines, and in others, the poet uses half rhymes or skips the rhyming pattern entirely.
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 ...
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You Lyrics. 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 ...
