valentine

Question 1

poetic voice

Answer 1

Honest, forceful, direct, desperate, frustrated, angry, possessive, coercive

Question 2

‘Red rose’ ‘satin heart’ ‘cute card’ ‘kissogram’

Answer 2

Noun phrases- epitomises the cliche, pattern of cliches

Question 3

‘I’ changes to ‘we’
‘I give you an onion’
‘For as long as we are’

Answer 3

Shift from first person to third person pronouns, ‘i’ the poetic voice was in control, ‘we’ poetic voice attempting to bring them together with love- but it’s forced

Question 4

‘Blind’ ‘grief’ ‘fierce’ ‘lethal’ ‘knife’

Answer 4

Semantic field of pain- love can kill you, ‘death’ of the individual (losing yourself)

Question 5

‘It is a moon wrapped in brown paper’

Answer 5

Metaphor- layered, they are discovering the love together, peeling the layers away- getting to know each other

Question 6

‘It will blind you with tears
like a lover’

Answer 6

The reality of love is painful
‘Blind’- verb, love is blind, it is vulnerable

Question 7

‘I give you an onion’

Answer 7

Pronoun- direct, pattern of personal pronoun- forceful, the gift is unwanted but the poetic voice is trying to force them to take it, desperate for them to take it