Valentine Flashcards
What is a quote that shows the speaker’s value of realistic and truthful love?
‘Wrapped in brown paper‘ shows that the speaker sees love as something that can be everyday and matter of fact.
What is a quote that shows the speaker’s disdain for conventional love and love gifts?
‘Not a red rose or a satin heart’ opens the poem by letting us know that the love poem promised by the title is not what we’re going to get.
What is a quote that shows that love can bring pain and heartbreak?
‘It will blind you with tears like a lover’ and ‘It will make your reflection a wobbling photo of grief’ compare the experience of being in love to an onion’s smell making you cry, and suggest that love isn’t always happiness and flowers - it can bring grief too.
What is a quote that shows how love can become destructive/restrictive?
‘Possessive’ ‘Lethal’ and ‘Shrink’ all convey that love can decay and lead to bad feelings, if people ruin it by being over-possessive, as well as saying that relationships can start to close in on themselves and became toxic.
What is a quote that says that love affairs can stay with us after they are over?
‘Its scent will cling to your fingers, cling to your knife’ shows that love can become dangerous and violent, with over-possessive and clinginess leading to the breakdown of a relationship.
What are the key themes of Valentine?
Love and relationships and loss, violence.
