Valentine Flashcards

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Not a red rose or a satin heart

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The negative adverb at the start forcefully rejects sugary sweet and romantic symbols of love

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I give you an onion. It is a moon wrapped brown paper

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An onion is shaped like the moon, which is a symbol of love. An onion is bitter though plain and dull

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It will blind you with tears like a lover

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The speaker is saying that love is bitter and hurtful and overwhelming (blind)

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Not a cute card or kissogram

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These are popular, merchandised ways of showing that you love someone and the speaker is forcefully rejecting them again

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5
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It’s fierce kiss will stay on your lips

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Love makes a permanent mark

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Possessive and faithful as we are for as long as we are

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‘Possessive’ suggests jealousy and ‘faithful’ suggests loyalty, so there is good and bad in love but ‘for as long as we are’ suggests that love doesn’t last

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‘Take it’

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This is a command to us

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Its platinum loops shrink to a wedding ring

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Marriage is constricting

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Lethal

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Love is harmful, deadly

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