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Valentine

Valentine. Carol Ann Duffy. Expectations. Think about the title and the poet. What expectations do you have? Think for a minute. Discuss with your shoulder partner. Share you thoughts with the class. Love Poetry. What features would you expect in traditional love poetry?

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Valentine

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  1. Valentine Carol Ann Duffy

  2. Expectations • Think about the title and the poet. What expectations do you have? • Think for a minute. • Discuss with your shoulder partner. • Share you thoughts with the class

  3. Love Poetry • What features would you expect in traditional love poetry? • What words would you expect to see? • What types of imagery would you expect?

  4. Valentine • How does `Valentine` compare with your expectations? • What do you find to be the most striking feature of the poem?

  5. Annotation Love is too deep for these clichés. Not a red rose or a satin heart. I give you an onion. It is a moon wrapped in brown paper. It promises light like the careful undressing of love. Romantic image. Governs women’s passions. Metaphor for love. Also bitterness. Common and plain. Brightness, clarity and beauty. Freedom from fear. Love making, sexual connotations. Also, revealing the depths and reality of love.

  6. Here. It will blind you with tears like a lover. It will make your reflection a wobbling photo of grief. I am trying to be truthful. Love will make you cry. Also, love is blind. Looking in the mirror at yourself crying. Negative portrayal of love here. Again avoiding clichés. Reinforced by stanza to itself.

  7. Not a cute card or a kissogram. I give you an onion. Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips, possessive and faithful as we are, for as long as we are. Further rejection of clichés of love. Metaphor again. Positive and negative nature of love. Aggressive nature of love at time. Nature of longing and desire. Flawed nature of humans and their passions linked to the overpowering nature of an onion.

  8. Take it. Its platinum loops shrink to a wedding-ring, if you like. Lethal. Its scent will cling to your fingers, cling to your knife. Instruction / demand Can be more traditional, like a wedding, if you choose. Dangerous. Can be detrimental to your wellbeing. Loves gets hold of you and sticks. The external nature of someone else being involved. Onion smell clings to a knife. Threat of violence if betrayed.

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