Valentine

Valentine

Not a red rose or satin heart.
1. Contrast to the title
  1. Juxtaposed
2. Red
  1. Passion
3. Dissaproving statement
4. Negative
5. Satin
  1. Dresses
  2. Lingere
I give you an onion.
1. First reference to a metaphor for love
  1. Extended throughout the poem
2. Humerous in comparison to red roses and satin hearts
3. Red onion
  1. Passion
  2. Love
  3. Layers
It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.
1. Moon
  1. Cycles
    1. Menustration
  2. Tides
  3. Associated with love songs and sexuality
  4. Said to influence women's moods and emotions
  5. Moon making her emotional/crazy
2. Brown paper
  1. Gifts
It promises light
1. Moonlight
  1. Full Moon
    1. Romantic
Like the careful undressing of love.
1. Careful
  1. Tender
2. undressing
  1. Passion
  2. Romance
  3. Physical
  4. Emotional
Here.
1. Demand
2. Order
3. Blunt
4. Stopped short
It will blind you with tears
1. Tears
  1. Crying
    1. Onions make you cry
    2. Love makes you cry
2. Blind
  1. Tears from peeling onion
  2. Love being blind
like a lover.
It will make your reflection
1. Are you recognisable to yourself before love?
2. Becoming someone else
3. Changing
4. He won't be able to look at his reflection without feeling grief
5. Wobbling
  1. Love distorts reality
a wobbling photo of grief.
I am trying to be truthful.
1. Single stopped line reinforces statement
2. Harsh T sound
  1. Cutting
    1. Knife
3. Angry
Not a cute card or kissogram.
1. Manmade items
  1. Juxtaposes with line before
    1. Makes this line sound untruthful
I give you an onion.
1. Repetition
  1. Reminder of gift
It's fierce kiss will stay on your lips
1. Memory
2. Mark
  1. Brand
3. Extended metaphor
4. Sibilance
  1. Kissing sound
  2. Onomatopoeic effect
possessive and faithful
1. Possessive
  1. Negative
  2. Clingy
  3. Can't trust
2. Faithful
  1. Positive
  2. Don't cheat
  3. Trust
3. Taste lingers like love
as we are,
1. 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.
1. Reinforced
2. Blunt
3. Command
It's platinum loops shrink to a wedding-ring,
1. Platinum
  1. Strong
  2. Doesn't break
  3. Expensive
2. Onions have layers that look like rings
3. Internal sense of rhyme links sense of concentric rings
4. Hint to marry?
5. Rings
  1. Entrapment
  2. Cycles
    1. Moon
if you like.
1. Reinforces negativity
  1. Onus placed on the listener
2. Blunt
Lethal.
1. Blunt
2. Powerful
3. Love can be lethal
It's scent will cling to your fingers,
1. Guilty
2. Cross rhyme connects repetition
3. Ambiguous ending
4. Implies threat
cling to your knife.
1. Love doesn't last
2. Responsibility
3. Knife
  1. Weapon for a jelous lover
Carol Ann Duffy
1. Poet Loriet
  1. Represents poets in Britain
2. Lesbian
3. Feminist
4. Written a collection of poems for different viewpoints of women in history
Title
1. Romantic
2. Cute
3. Soppy
4. Sweet
5. Love

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