Valentine Flashcards

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Language

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“Red rose, cute card” - semantic field linked to modern ideas of love, shows how superficial and materialistic love is.

“I give you an onion” metaphor of love as a complex and difficult thing but something that the modern world takes for granted

“It is the moon” symbolism of love that it needs a greater source of light for it to shine, therefore love needs effort for it to suffice

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Structure

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Anaphora of “not a” complexity of love

Line breaks of “if you like, lethal” relationship is unpredictable

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Form

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Free verse- non conventional forms of love

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Context

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Post modernism- deconstructing of modern ideas and irregularities in nature

Had a relationship for 15 years experienced hardships of love

Consumerism

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Links

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Sonnet 43

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