Rapture (Carol Ann Duffy) complete mindmap
- Created by: Acacia Sheppard
- Created on: 05-06-13 18:21
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- Rapture
- Context (AO4)
- Carol Ann Duffy
- Poet Laureate
- Lesbian
- Born in 1955 (modern writing)
- Modern, easily accessible
- Carol Ann Duffy
- Recurring images
- Pastoral imagery
- Forest
- Flowers
- River/ water
- The moon
- Female sexuality
- **********
- Sexual imagery
- Masturbatory (River)
- physical body parts (corporal images)
- Completely intoxicating
- Sexual imagery
- Pathetic fallacy
- The idea that love is uncontrollably linked to nature
- Perhaps to justify her 'unnatural' relationship?
- Use of the second person
- Addresses the reader as the lover
- Allows the lover to remain genderless
- Important to notice when it's not, eg The Lovers (3rd person)
- Use of the second person
- Perhaps to justify her 'unnatural' relationship?
- Religious images
- Sexual imagery
- Masturbatory (River)
- physical body parts (corporal images)
- Completely intoxicating
- Death
- Pastoral imagery
- Use of the second person
- Addresses the reader as the lover
- Allows the lover to remain genderless
- Important to notice when it's not, eg The Lovers (3rd person)
- Context (AO4)
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