Humerous in comparison to red roses and satin hearts
Red onion
Passion
Love
Layers
It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.
Moon
Cycles
Menustration
Tides
Associated with love
songs and sexuality
Said to influence women's moods and emotions
Moon making her emotional/crazy
Brown paper
Gifts
It promises light
Moonlight
Full Moon
Romantic
Like the careful undressing of love.
Careful
Tender
undressing
Passion
Romance
Physical
Emotional
Here.
Demand
Order
Blunt
Stopped short
It will blind you with tears
Tears
Crying
Onions make you cry
Love makes you cry
Blind
Tears from peeling onion
Love being blind
like a lover.
It will make your reflection
Are you recognisable to yourself before love?
Becoming someone else
Changing
He won't be able to look at
his reflection without feeling
grief
Wobbling
Love distorts reality
a wobbling photo of grief.
I am trying to be truthful.
Single stopped line reinforces statement
Harsh T sound
Cutting
Knife
Angry
Not a cute card or kissogram.
Manmade items
Juxtaposes with line before
Makes this line sound untruthful
I give you an onion.
Repetition
Reminder of gift
It's fierce kiss will stay on your lips
Memory
Mark
Brand
Extended metaphor
Sibilance
Kissing sound
Onomatopoeic effect
possessive and faithful
Possessive
Negative
Clingy
Can't trust
Faithful
Positive
Don't cheat
Trust
Taste lingers like love
as we are,
Suggests that love is temporary but the
overwhelming scent of the onion lasts
longer. Maybe it suggests that lovers
should only stay together as long as they
are passionate. Reinforced by stopped
line.
for as long as we are.
Take it.
Reinforced
Blunt
Command
It's platinum loops shrink to a wedding-ring,
Platinum
Strong
Doesn't break
Expensive
Onions have layers that look like rings
Internal sense of rhyme links sense of concentric rings
Hint to marry?
Rings
Entrapment
Cycles
Moon
if you like.
Reinforces negativity
Onus placed on the listener
Blunt
Lethal.
Blunt
Powerful
Love can be lethal
It's scent will cling to your fingers,
Guilty
Cross rhyme connects repetition
Ambiguous ending
Implies threat
cling to your knife.
Love doesn't last
Responsibility
Knife
Weapon for a jelous lover
Carol Ann Duffy
Poet Loriet
Represents poets in Britain
Lesbian
Feminist
Written a collection of poems
for different viewpoints of women
in history