Commentary on "Valentine" by Carol Ann Duffy Carol Ann Duffy talks of an unorthodox love in her poem “Valentine”‚ where she compares love to an onion. The narrator finds that gift givers portray love incorrectly when she mentions typical Valentine’s Day gifts. The poem is an extended metaphor of love being an onion‚ and she thinks of love as a violent emotion rather than a peaceful one. The narrator compares love to an onion in her poem "Valentine" to show that her opinion of love is unconventional
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Valentine Valentine By Carol Ann Duffy By Carol Ann Duffy Valentine is a love poem written by Carol Ann Duffy. Throughout the poem she compares love to an onion. She does this by using different techniques such as imagery ‚ word structure and of course by using poetic devices. All these techniques help her make this poem so special and unusual‚ and it helps her to describe her own points of view about love. ‘Not a red rose or a satin heart.’ Is the first line of the poem. The poet creates
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The story begins with the protagonist Claudia Valentine who is initially portrayed with masculine qualities and the reader assumes she is a man. As you learn more about Claudia you learn that she breaks many of the female stereotypes and this develops her character. Claudia Valentine is a private investigator and she is commissioned by Marks sister to investigate Marks death as she believes that there were suspicious circumstances. Claudia Valentine is sent of on many “red herrings” as
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How does Carol Ann Duffy use language and imagery to explore love. Throughout the poem ‘Valentine’ love is explored in different ways for example in the first stanza ‘careful undressing of love’ has various meanings‚ one being the comparison of the onion which is supposed to mirror her heart‚ the core of her love; to get to her heart you have to take time to remove each layer of emotion in contrast to an onion where to get to the core you have to remove the layers of skin. You must be careful with
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“A Retrieved Reformation” Jimmy Valentine is the main character of this story. Jimmy was a criminal‚ intelligent‚ and clever. Jimmy was sentenced to prison for four years because he robbed banks. After only 10 months‚ he was pardoned by the governor and released. He had returned to his home and gathered his safe-opening instruments. Jimmy then proceeded to burglarize a bank in Richmond‚ Indiana. And again‚ he robbed a bank in Jefferson City and purloined five hundred dollars. Ben Price was a detective
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text the life and crimes of harry lavender; Marele day has formed an incredibly distinctive voice in crime fiction. By subverting the elements of the hardboiled detective genre. Day has startled her audience with the distinctive voice of Claudia valentine‚ a 1980’s female private investigator in Sydney. The composer has used a range of techniques including first person narration and idioms to successfully make this text distinctive‚ and by doing this she has subverted the chauvinistic male‚ and changed
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Fang Xiangning Prof. Qu 15 March 2015 12300120182 The Theme of Valentine by John Fuller The poem Valentine by John Fuller depicts a man’s unrequited but intense love and passionate desires for a lady in the first person. First of all‚ by “unrequited‚” I mean that even though the man confided his profound love for the lady in the poem‚ the lady does not seem to feel for him in the same way. Secondly‚ by “intense‚” I mean that his love for this lady is so strong and great that he cannot help observing
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Expectations (Prompt 2) Miss Havisham is a wealthy‚ but odd old lady who lives secluded with her daughter Estella Havisham. Miss Havisham was left at the altar by her fiance and lives her life dwelling in the past‚ hung up on losing the love of her life. She wears her wedding dress (that is now yellowing from age) and has every clock in her estate stopped at the exact minute that she found out that the man she loved‚ left her. The reader will quickly notice that Miss Havisham is a bit of a “fruit cake”
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Havisham Havisham is a poem by Carol Ann Duffy. It is part of the Mean Time collection that was released in 1998. Havisham is a poem about that fits into Carol Ann Duffy’s body of work throughout this collection as it deals with the theme of memory and nostalgia and it charts the impact of time on the character fates in this instance which is related to love‚ life‚ loss‚ and death‚ and its damaged irreconcilable relationships also form a part of this poem. This poem is typical of Carol Ann Duffy’s
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Compare the presentation of Lady Macbeth and Miss Havisham. Explore how Shakespeare and Dickens present them as disturbed women. Disturbed is a definition of someone who has emotional or mental problems; both Lady Macbeth and Miss Havisham are presented as disturbed characters in one way or another. These two leading women both have characteristics that were not stereotypical of woman at the time periods that the play and the novel were set in; making them immediately appear strange to the audience
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