Duffy's Rapture: 'You'

What poetic form is being used in Duffy’s ‘You’?

Duffy’s ‘You’ utilises a broken sonnet form, there is no rhyming pattern and the lines vary in length.

‘Uninvited, the thought of you stayed too late in my head,’ - what is the word type, literary or linguistic technique is being used in bold

A past participle adjective

‘so I went to bed, dreaming you hard, hard, woke with your name,’ - what is the word type, literary or linguistic technique is being used in bold

An Epizouxis is used on the adjective "hard"

‘so I went to bed, dreaming you hard, hard, woke with your name,’ - what is the word type, literary or linguistic technique is being used in bold

a fragmented sentence structure

‘like tears, soft, salt, on my lips, the sound of its bright syllables’‘like a charm, like a spell’’ - what is the word type, literary or linguistic technique is being used in bold

Repetition

‘like tears, soft, salt, on my lips, the sound of its bright syllables’‘like a charm, like a spell’’ - what is the word type, literary or linguistic technique is being used in bold

Sensory imagery

‘like tears, soft, salt, on my lips, the sound of its bright syllables’‘like a charm, like a spell’’ - what is the word type, literary or linguistic technique is being used in bold

Juxtaposition of imagery, ambivalence.

‘is glamorous hell; the crouched, parched heart’ - what is the word type, literary or linguistic technique is being used in bold

The adjective-noun construction is an oxymoron

‘is glamorous hell; the crouched, parched heart’ - what is the word type, literary or linguistic technique is being used in bold

The verbs are oxymoronic, there is an ambivalence present

‘like a tiger ready to kill; a flame’s fierce licks under the skin.’ - what is the word type, literary or linguistic technique is being used in bold?

Simile

‘like a tiger ready to kill; a flame’s fierce licks under the skin.’ - what is the word type, literary or linguistic technique is being used in bold?

personification

‘I hid in my ordinary days, in the long grass of routine,’ - what is the word type, literary or linguistic technique is being used in bold?

Extended metaphor

‘staring back from anyone’s face, from the shape of a cloud, from the pining, earth-struck moon which gapes at me’ - what is the word type, literary or linguistic technique is being used in bold?

Indefinite pronouns

‘staring back from anyone’s face, from the shape of a cloud, from the pining, earth-struck moon which gapes at me’ - what is the word type, literary or linguistic technique is being used in bold?

Celestial Imagery

‘You’ by Carol Ann Duffy is the ____ poem in the collection?

First

What comparison can be made between the poem 'Grief’ and ‘You’?

Mirrored use of past participle adjectives (Uninvited/Unwanted)

What comparison can be made between the poem 'Write’ and ‘You’?

Exploration of pain and pleasure, where the same theme is explored in the line 'kissing and kissing, and my face reddened, blackened, whitened to ash.'

What comparison can be made between the poem 'Wintering’ and ‘You’?

Use of celestial imagery as a symbol of the narrators desires

What comparison can be made between the poem 'Hour’ and ‘You’?

Mirrors broken sonnet form