Not a red rose or a satin heart.
I give you an onion.
It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.
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this poem is so trash. my 2 year old disabled cousin can do better.
I think its really clever how she used an onion to describe what love is? but what is love is it caring for someone/or maybe just to hang round with people but carol ann-duffy has describe love as some ways lethal as it could be and she donst want to be tradtional she wants to be unique and that is what she is.
10/10 for the nostalgia. Always thought the connection between the strong smelling tiny shallots and wedding rings was a really intelligent use of imagery, nicely done (y)
I love this poem. It so very clever in the way Carol Ann connects characteristics of an onion to the intensity of love. I had booked to see Carolyn at Edinburgh Book Festival last summer but was unfortunately taken into hospital. I hope she will be there this year so I can catch up.
really like the poem, showing the metaphorical onion breaking the cliché borders of 'satin hearts' and 'red roses'
just put the onion in the valentine bro