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A level English (Poetry) Mind Map on Valentine - Carol Ann Duffy, created by Anna Bant on 08/02/2018.
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Valentine - Carol Ann Duffy
Analysis
Themes
Summary
Comparisons
DESTRUCTIVENESS OF
LOVE
BREAKDOWN
RELATIONSHIPS
PAINFUL EMOTIONS
CONNECTING WITH
LOVE
LOVE IS = BLIND,
BITTER, FIERCE,
POSSESSIVE,
LETHAL
Valentine is a poem that rejects
conventional expectations and
classic tokens of love 'red
rose'/'satin heart'
The poem itself is an extended
metaphor and explores the concept of
love through unrealistic comparisons
and unusual imagery because an
onion is a very unflattering, rancid and
unromantic object
Each stanza also
shows different
phases of love
beginning with
positive feelings
and then
deteriorate into
misunderstandings
and
violence
Duffy uses the extended metaphor
of an onion to show her speaker's
increasing frustration that the gift
of an onion has been rejected.
Eventually, the speaker,
overwhelmed by the rejection
resorts to threatening/almost
violent language
The onion represents a relationship which may occasionally
cause you pain 'IT WILL BLIND YOU WITH TEARS LIKE A
LOVER' - simile - truth/honesty - suggests love can cause
distress.
The oxymoron 'ITS FIERCE KISS WILL STAY ON YOUR LIPS'
creates a vivid image of the speaker remembering clearly on
the experience.
The adjective 'FIERCE' has connotations of danger and is negatively used in this sentence
especially when Duffy creates sibilance showing how sly/sexual the relationship was.
The concrete noun 'KISS' is usually associated with passion, romance or lust but because the contrast is strong, the
oxymoron may seem quite ironic because the couple may not be as close and perhaps that's why their personalities are
different showing that they may clash together or compliment each other.
The verb and noun 'WILL STAY' also portrays the
sentimental feelings that the speaker has. This
may also present a sense of force and violence
as the reader is told that the kiss 'WILL' be stuck
upon them for a long time. It could convey that
the onion is a gift representing the layers being
so strong that they will stain your body like the
images of the relationship.
The tone is a forceful, intimate one as the first line on each
stanza has an imperative which commands a minor sentence.
For example 'HERE' and 'TAKE'. This may imply the pressure they
put on one another but also shown in a gentle way like making a
peace offering.
Valentine is written open form
(free verse) which may show the
reality of relationships as they
aren't set to go a certain way.
The use of minor sentences
are frequent to show love is
permanently damaging with
the full stops creating the
impact as 'LETHAL'
Valentine explores how a relationship works in
reality and the title being misleading as that
represents conventional ideas of love like flowers
chocolates and teddybears but the speaker gives
a gift of an onion as an extended metaphor.
Beachcomber
Before You Were Mine
The Captain of the 1964
Top of the Form Team
Nostalgia
First
Love
The
Biographer
Litany
Stafford Afternoons
The Cliche
Kid
Small Female Skull
Never Go
Back
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Mean Time
Break down relationship similar,
DAUGHTER LOOKING UPON
MOTHER, love is blind for both
poems
Painful emotions but not connecting with love,
traumatic event experienced as a child, nostalgic
Nostalgic, powerful memory of love -
YOUNG COUPLE IN LOVE QUICK BUT
NOW ITS OVER
Obsessive, could be over Charles
Dickens, affection, similar as love is
possessive
Childhood memory,
nostalgic, LITTLE GIRL
SWEARING
LITTLE GIRL GOES THROUGH
HEDGE AND FINDS MAN,
similar painful emotions
with love, nostalgic
TOXIC RELATIONSHIP, LUST, PAST AND FUTURE MOCKING, similar by
themes - destructiveness of love, breakdown relationships, commanding,
love is possessive, painful emotions attached
COMPARES LOSING TIME TO
MISTAKES IN RELATIONSHIP,
breakdown relationship,
creates universal message
Time, nostalgia, disillusionment,
childhood CLEVER TV STUDENT NOW
NOT KNOWN
Nostalgic, longing for home, MENTAL
ILLNESS, creates universal message
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