valentine

• "it is a moon wrapped in brown paper"
• "cling to your fingers,cling to your knife"
• "take it."
• "not a red rose or a satin heart"
• "it will blind you with tears like a lover"
• carol ann Duffy wrote this poem for a radio station for valentines day
• carol ann duffy was into men and women
• this poem shows untraditional love values represented through an onion
• the themes in this poem are love and relationships
• the title represents the holiday and makes the reader think of traditional values