... ;The course of true love never did run smooth." (I.i. 134) Earnestly professed by Lysander in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, the character assertively articulates one of the play's most crucial themes: the complexities of love. Similarly, Carol Anne Duffy's poem Love, penned for her novel-length poem Rapture published in 2005, comments on the unpredictability of love's nature; an immortal, white ... interpreted to reaffirm the preceding line that "[he/she] [is] everywhere", even in the hollow spaces that are interwoven in the poem. The author proceeds to describe the metamorpho...

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