Since no two relationships are alike, love can be expressed through different ways and can still be able to get across to a person’s significant other. The different views of expressing one’s love can be seen in the poem “Valentine,” by Carol Ann Duff, as one lover gives their lover an unusual gift for Valentine's Day. The other way it is shown, is in Julie Sheehan’s poem, “Hate Poem,” which displays one’s love for the other person, using a negative meaning to show how much they truly love the other person. The contrasting views of love in both “Valentine” and “Hate Poem,” are shown through the different perspectives, languages, and themes.
In Duffy’s poem “Valentine,” she challenges the well established representations of romantic love and
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To the speaker, this is why the onion’s rings have to “shrink”(19) to become a wedding ring. The “shrink” (19) can imply a feeling of being closed in on or captured. This shows that the speaker may feel that marriage can be suffocating and even “lethal,”(21) suggesting that she believes marriage can kill love. Also, this is why she says the onion’s scent “clings to your knife,” (23) because just as a person must cut open an onion to get its scent, they must also cut open and break apart love to bring about heartbreak. This shows that the speaker is suggesting that marriage is the thing that can break apart love.
When looking at the structure and form of “Valentine,” it is very different with its single lined verses. This can be Duffy’s way of protesting at the stereotypical style of love poems, which are usually very regular and often known to use rhyme. While Duffy’ uses very little. The whole point to her poem was to break away from the customary ways to express one’s love to another while showing that love is not always simple nor is it always
In "Valentine" Carol Ann Duffy starts off the poem by describing the state of the relationship and uses the words like the careful undressing of love to create a simile of sexual nature. As the poem progresses, we find out that Carol Ann Duffy is, in fact, ending the story. relationship with the person concerned. She uses phrases like possessive and lethal, which certainly does not conform to most. Valentine poems for today.
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The poem “To You” by Kenneth Koch is a romantic love poem that the persona uses to express his deep love to his love. The title of the poem “To You” further reveals how the persona treasures his love. He directly addresses her and showers her with deep and romantic emotional feelings. The poem is radiant and possesses high spirits as well as the rare moods in which inspiration, affection, and happiness are the same, since they reflect how you feel. At the end of the poem, there is unity between sunlight and the attention of the lover. This depicts the persona’s world. That is, the water that is heart is swimming in. this further portrays love to him, as a pathway and a necessity from which he derives his joy and happiness.
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Morrie Schwartz talks a lot about love in “Tuesday’s With Morrie” and I chose this theme as a topic because it’s close to my heart. I can relate to Morrie’s beliefs and thoughts on love and romance. Love is for everyone and everyone deserves to love and be loved in life because humans need something to live for. When a person has love, they feel like they actually have a purpose in life and humans would be lonely without love in their life. “Let it come in. We think we don’t deserve love, we think if we let it in we’ll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said, ‘Love is the only rational act’” (Albom, 1997, 52). The Tuesday Mitch and Morrie talk about the world is when Morrie talks about loving and letting love in
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