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valentine
'Valentine' is a free verse lyric, and depends on the extended metaphor of the onion.
'I give you an onion', says the speaker, and various facets of this onion are discussed as the poem develops, each with a particular significance for Valentine's Day.
The main metaphor is the onion itself. The subsidiary metaphors appear one by one in each stanza, so the structure becomes more complex.
Read lines 2-5, the first stanza.
What aspect of the onion are we to envisage here? It's
A moon wrapped in brown paper.
It promises light...
Think of the way we deal with metaphors, considering first the literal meaning and then the figurative.
Write down what you make of this metaphor.
A brown paper wrapping has to be removed. So does the onion skin. When the different layers of the onion are revealed, they are like 'the careful undressing of love', that...
'Valentine' is a free verse lyric, and depends on the extended metaphor of the onion.
'I give you an onion', says the speaker, and various facets of this onion are discussed as the poem develops, each with a particular significance for Valentine's Day.
The main metaphor is the onion itself. The subsidiary metaphors appear one by one in each stanza, so the structure becomes more complex.
Read lines 2-5, the first stanza.
What aspect of the onion are we to envisage here? It's
A moon wrapped in brown paper.
It promises light...
Think of the way we deal with metaphors, considering first the literal meaning and then the figurative.
Write down what you make of this metaphor.
A brown paper wrapping has to be removed. So does the onion skin. When the different layers of the onion are revealed, they are like 'the careful undressing of love', that...
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