I Wouldn T Thank You For A Valentine Analysis

Emotions of the Mind and Heart To illustrate, some people hate it and for some it is just another day on the calendar. But a good number of people love February 14th as well, and that is what the day is all about. Every February 14th, across the United States and in other places around the world, candies, flowers, and gifts are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of St. Valentine. “Valentine” by Carol Ann Duffy and “I Wouldn’t Thank You for a Valentine” by Liz Lochhead express their views on love in similar yet contrasting ways. In these poems they acquaint love through structure, imagery, and symbolism. To start with, “Valentine,” the structure of the poem has been skillfully controlled to accentuate Duffy’s key focuses. For example, I agree with The Prime Minister Gordon Brown claims, “She is a truly brilliant modern poet who has stretched our imaginations by putting the …show more content…
“I give you an onion” (2), in that it begins off with an obtuse, negative articulation. However, Lochhead’s is a normal sentence that would not be viewed as uncommon, not at all like Duffy’s. Which would be thought to be extremely bizarre, surely, and hence makes Duffy’s more critical. While Duffy is against the entire thought of affection, Lochhead bolsters the thought of adoration yet is against the corporate greed of Valentine’s Day and the clichés connected with it. She entireties this up in one sentence, “The whole Valentine’s Day Thing is trivial and commercial” (12), and Lochhead goes head to say that it is “A cue for unleashing clichés and candy heart motifs to which I personally am not partial” (13). The way that Lochhead utilizes capital letters for the words day and thing and also for Valentine proposes that that it has turned into an occasion due to the corporate greed connected with it and for no commendable