Shaping Absence: Carol Ann Duffy's 'Rapture'

An essay on Carol Ann Duffy's poetry book Rapture (2005) and the current state of lyrical poetry, in particular British poetry, in the age of sms and electronic text. I present a critique to the recurrence of using the metaphor of ‘heart’ as being the center of human emotion, which I consider an impossible image to carry on in the era of brain research and technological human beings.

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Note: The article was firstly published online in 2007, and subsequently reprinted in Ceia, Carlos (ed.) Talent Will Rise: Essays on Contemporary English Literature (6th ed., 2013)