Valentine I Give You An Onion Analysis

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love is expressed in many ways but in the poem ”Valentine,’love is expressed in a new way. the poet talks about love and compares it with an onion. The poet uses different ways to talk about love, for example in her text she says “Not a red rose or a satin heart” she is taking the things people first think about when they hear love and is trying to show you a new way to look at it,a better way to show love with new items like an onion.when the poet says ”I give you an onion” she shows us something like an onion can represent love and shows a different way to look at an onion, a romantic way. she uses a way of explaining her ideas of love which makes people chortle at first but once actually listen is a very veracity way of comparing an

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