Valentine - Carol Ann Duffy
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How does the title relate?
brings traditional connotations of relationships
these are rejected
What features does duffy often use in her poems?
subverting traditional structures
postmodernism
‘not a red rose or a satin heart’
Red rose - alliteration, a synecdoche for valentines day
semantic links to romantic materialism
‘i give you an onion’
direct speech
onion - metaphor for the speakers’s love, no preceding adjective, layers
‘it will blind you with tears’
extended metaphor - onions make people cry
love makes people cry
‘tears…lover’
half rhyme
links lover to tears
‘for as long as we are’
absence of conditional - no speculation
highlights temporry nature of relationships
‘take it’
imperative - needs to take the token of love
‘lethal’
singular adjective - violence and love are inextricably linked
‘its scent will cling to your fingers’
sensory imagery - sensuallity
allegorical portrayal of how traces of relationships remain
anaphora
‘not a…’
rhyme scheme
free verse - speaker is liberated
stanza length
varied
