Quickdraw Summary & Analysis
by Carol Ann Duffy

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"Quickdraw," by British poet Carol Ann Duffy, describes a passionate exchange between lovers as though it were a showdown between gunslingers in the Wild West. The lovers' back-and-forth via phone and text excites the speaker and fills them with pleasure, but the poem suggests that such intense feelings border on dangerous; the lovers run the risk of getting seriously hurt. "Quickdraw" was published in Duffy's seventh poetry collection, Rapture, in 2005.

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