Valentine 1993 * Flashcards
Carol Ann Duffy - love and relationship, negative emotions
context
- has had eterozexual relationship - is a mother
- now in a longterm relationship wiht a woman
- looks at love form different point of view - challanges heternormatve ideas of love
- wrote this whilst still in marriage to man - felt trapped
paras for if seen
- unconventional descriptional
- powerful love
- dangerous
poems to comapre with
- She walks in beauty
- sonnet 43
paras for comparison with sonnet 43
- both desribe a passionate love
- however valentine more nuanced, sonnet 43 glorifies love
- however valentine more realistsic
para 1
sonnet 43
passionate:
- “blind you with tears”
- “fierce kiss will stay on your lips”
- “possessive and faithful”
- “lethal”
- “scent will cling to your fingers, cling to your knife”
para 2
sonnet 43
nuanced:
- “Not a red rose or a satin heart”
- “not a cute card or a kissogram”
- “moon wrapped in brown paper”
para 3
sonnet 43
realistic:
- “careful undressing of love”
- “I am trying to be truthful”
- “it’s platinum loops shrink to a weddign ring” “lethal”
- “for as long as we are”
paras for comaprison with she walks in beauty
- both describe a passionate love
- she walks in beauty very idealised love,
- she walks in beauty focuses on physical
para 1
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passionate:
- “blind you with tears”
- “fierce kiss will stay on your lips”
- “possessive and faithful”
- “lethal”
- “scent will cling to your fingers, cling to your knife”
para 2
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realistic love vs idealised:
- “careful undressing of love”
- “I am trying to be truthful”
- “it’s platinum loops shrink to a weddign ring” “lethal”
- “for as long as we are”
para 3
swib