Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Valentine by
Carol Ann Duffy
- SUBJECT
- a gift for a lover
- an onion is a powerful gift of love
- onion is a metaphor for love =
poem is about love and gifts
- FORM AND STRUCTURE
- free verse
- form echoes the form of an onion = layers
- unconventional structure
- Duffy's unconventional view
- first person narrative
- THEMES AND IDEAS
- dismisses cliche ideas of love
- love is dangerous
- death of the relationship
- 'knife'
- against marriage
- unwanted
- 'cling'
- LANGUAGE
- simple and
straight-forward
- honest like love
- doesn't need to be 'dressed
up' in order for it to be special
- 'I give you an onion'
- repeated
- reinstating point
- struggle at first but then
understand and accept it
- people won't want usual gift so have to be forced upon them
- LINGUISTIC TECHNIQUES
- alliteration
- 'cute card' and
'red rose'
- lack of rhyme
- unconventional
view
- IMAGERY
- ROMANTIC
- metaphor of 'moon'
- glowing feeling at start
of relationship
- 'brown paper'
- gift
- 'not a...'
- dismissing cliches
- DIFFERENT kind of valentine
- DANGER
- 'blind you with tears'
- 'fierce kiss'
- 'lethal'
- 'knife'
- possessive