Valentine - Carol Ann Duffy Flashcards
“Onion, Moon”
“I give you an onion, it is a moon”
Mystery of love celestial imagery. Love has many layers pealing like an onion with a symbol of complexity not in a rose
“With tears”
“With tears like a lover”
Antithesis shows how love is also a painful emotion deterring comparisons with rose
“Truthful”
“I am trying to be truthful”
Truthful unlike generic symbols of love. Followed by two instances, unorthodoxy makes it more true and special
“Platinum Loops”
“Platinum loops shrink to a wedding ring”
Physical properties compared to wedding ring of promises and expectations, shrinks suggests that the ring is lesser
“Knife”
“Cling to your knife”
Sudden negative image show love as collation of images, murderous possibility represented by knife which previously was love
