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Mind Map by Niamh Noble, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Niamh Noble
about 8 years ago
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Valentine - Carol Ann Duffy
- Born 1955, Glasgow
- Poems often feminist in
its themes and approach
- e.g World's wife, took characters from history,
mythology and literature. Gave them female p.o.v -
feminised version of the character
- e.g World's wife, took characters from history,
mythology and literature. Gave them female p.o.v -
feminised version of the character
- First female Poet Laureate
- Controversy around her work., follows
Robert Browning tradition in writing
monologues from p.o.v of disturbed
characters
- Poems often feminist in
its themes and approach
- "I give you an onion." stanza 1
- Unconventional gift
- dismissal of the cliches
- "Not a cute card or
kissogram"
- Another criticism of cliches
- Another criticism of cliches
- "Not a cute card or
kissogram"
- dismissal of the cliches
- harsh- lacks emotion
- love has layers-like an onion
- Stanza 3 -repition of "I give you an
onion"
- "Its fierce kiss will
stay on your lips"
- Personification -oxymoron
- Suggest the intensity of the relationship -powerful and
passionate
- Personification -oxymoron
- "Its fierce kiss will
stay on your lips"
- Unconventional gift
- Poem is an extended metaphor -the onion
- Stanza 2 -"It will blind you with
tears"
- love can make people ignorant
- "Like lover."
- simile\ fragment
- Fragment has an end end stop
- simile\ fragment
- "Like lover."
- "A wobbling photo of grief"
- Metaphor
- full of anguish and sorrow
suggesting hurt between the couple
- A photo can be permanent -the
anguish is permanent
- Metaphor
- love can make people ignorant
- Stanza 4 - 'its platinum loops shrink to
a wedding ring "
- RIng -symbolises commitment and a
life spent together
- Shrink- Suggests that loves
diminishes over time
- Platinum is a precious metal- love
is also precious
- "Its scent will cling to your finger, cling
to your knife
- Love lingers, it is also harsh
and has the potential to hurt
someone like a knife
- The poems tone has switched, become
dark and harsh
- Tone changes throughout the
poem - the tone can be violent
- Tone changes throughout the
poem - the tone can be violent
- "KNIFE" could suggest love can
be hurtful or the death of love
- Love lingers, it is also harsh
and has the potential to hurt
someone like a knife
- RIng -symbolises commitment and a
life spent together
- Structure
- Free verse structure
- Fragments
- Fragments
- Lacks constant rhythm
- sporadic and irratic
- sporadic and irratic
- enjambment
- can make the poem lack rhythm
- can make the poem lack rhythm
- Free verse structure
- Themes- nature and
death -which juxtapose
each other
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