Valentine ‘Valentine’ is a controversial love poem written by Carol Ann Duffy. Throughout the poem the poetess compares love to an onion and she does that by using a variety of techniques such as imagery‚ symbolism‚ word choice and structure. All these techniques justify why Valentine is an unusual love-poem as they help the poet express her different point of view. Overall‚ the poem is unusual as its title mistakenly leads the reader into thinking that the poem will be typical. I felt deeply moved
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the ways Duffy explores the beauty of relationships in “hour” Hour written by Carol Anne Duffy explores the never ending emotional highs and lows of a shown in a relationship and but also shown is how just spending time with a love one is precious even if it’s just for a little while. A way in which Duffy shows the beauty if relationships in hour is through love and time by creating a strong theme connection between the two to show this link she uses phrases such as “love times beggar” this
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Nostalgia: Background: Swiss Mercenaries came down from the mountains to fight on behalf of European rulers in Distant Lands. Many of these mercenaries suffered from nostalgia. * Nostalgia was believed to be a medical disease. * Symptoms included anorexia‚ bouts of weeping and even suicide attempts. * For years‚ people believed only the Swiss were prone to it. * In 1688‚ Hofer suggested it was “a cerebral disease of essentially demonic cause” * In 1732‚ Scheuchzer said it was
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Analysis by theme – Carol Ann Duffy CHILDHOOD Notes from “Originally” Repeatedly returns to the metaphor of childhood as a “country” – echoes of L.P. Hartley’s “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. Notion of past being intimately associated with place‚ and that adulthood is a journey away from it. “All childhood is an emigration.”/ “I want our own country”. Fear of being in an alien place as a child reflected in the alienation of adult life. “I lost a river
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Carol Ann Duffy decided to write poems about two secluded women who are both bizarre and both reclusive‚ but for very different reasons. I would like to show how Carol Ann presented those distinctions and similarities. To begin with‚ the tone of the poem is very different Salome’s tone is somewhat nonchalant and Havisham’s tone is disheartening. In Havisham‚ Carol Ann Duffy uses alliteration to emphasise Ms Havisham’s hatred and frustration‚ by using the repetition of the fierce ‘b’ sound which
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Carol Ann Duffy is a time traveller. Her poetry frequently steps to one side of an experience and redraws its ostensible shape‚ smudging away at any exclusive edges‚ so that the supposed fixity of an experience or relationship becomes more plastic‚more malleable. I love this creativity in Duffy‚ this capacity for the ‘what if’ or ‘reframe’ in Carol Ann Duffy. For like all great writers‚ she is prepared to renegotiate experience and the past. She believes in resurrection through remembrance‚ and
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Havisham Carol Ann Duffy penned a dark‚ cynical poem titled Havisham. The poem articulates a deep anguish dramatic monologue of a lonely old spinster lady – Havisham‚ a character from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Havisham was ditched on her wedding day by her fiancé‚ the consequences were that she was no longer respected and secluded from the society. Decades have past‚ Havisham remains in her wedding dress and cruses the love of her life for the pain and torture she has faced every
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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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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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