“If yours is the iron fist in the velvet glove
When the arrow flies, the heart is pierced, tattoo me.”
“every nerve in his body had tightened and closed.”
“We caught her, fetched her home at last
And turned the key upon her, fast.”
“and gilded finches like high notes – had streamed out.”
Why does Duffy use personification in “Love’s time’s beggar,”?
How does the reader respond to the personification in “Love’s time’s
beggar,”?