Carol Ann Duffy wrote the poem Valentine to express her feelings on love.

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BY Alex Chen                                Valentine                          22/11/01

Carol Ann Duffy wrote the poem Valentine to express her feelings on love. She described how an onion is a much better gift then a cute card or a kissogram. Here I am trying to explain why she thinks onion is a better gift.

To send a cute card to their lovers is just what everyone does when they can’t be bothered to think of any thing else. It is so simple, and will never surprises the person who receives the gift. It’s so much better, to give them some thing that is different, such as onion. Onion is a much better gift then just a cute card or a kissogram. It has much more meaning then just a simple card. Onion has got many things, which reflects how love works. It’s tells you every thing about love. Both the good things that can happen to you and the bad things that can happen to you.

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Carol Ann Duffy uses the metaphor: “A moon wrapped in brown paper” to describe the onion. The word moon is always related to romance and love. And that reflects how love can be really bright some times. It will give you a good time, such as the “careful undressing of love”. But it also means that it’s hidden under a layer of some thing that it wouldn’t shine, unless you take the trouble to discover it your self.

If love is perfect, it’ll only be a dream, it is never realistic. The writer uses another metaphor to describe ...

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