Valentine

'Valentine'

• Suggests typical and generic poem about love but is actually about how valentines day is pointless unless you give someone a meaningfull gift

'Not a red rose or a satin heart' 'Not a cute card or a kissogram'

• Describes how cliche gifts like roses are impersonal and satin is fake and meaningless 
• Kissogram show how relationships are no longer about being with the person you love they're more about giving someone a gift for the sake of it

• Carol Ann Duffy writes using personas who tell dramatic and domestic stories
• She explores human themes like love
• They are about how the lines between extreme emotions can be blurred like love and anger 
• They are blunt and use an informal register 

' I give you an onion/ It is a moon wrapped in brown paper'

• It is first person which makes it more loving
• The verb is demanding and suggest they are intense a
• The metaphor is romantic as the moon is associated with love and shows the narrator wants to please his partner 

'i give you'

• Repetition becomes increasingly demanding and suggets it is unwanted

'It will blind you with tears like a lover'

• Simile suggests love is painful suggesting their relationship is dramatic and possibly violent

'Take it'

• Imperative and short sentence suggets one person always has more power and control in a relationship

'It's patinum loops shrink to a wedding ring'

• Metaphor shows commitment and that their love is only intense because their realtionship has layers and meaning 

• Free verse illustrates the uiqueness of their love
• Small stanza illustrate the layers of the oniom

'It's scent will cling to your fingers,/Cling to your knife'

• Ending with this sentence suggets love changes you forever and knife being the last word suggets love can be a fatal stab.