valentine

• context: Duffy likes to break conventions and in Valentine she criticises society's views of being materialistic
• structure: poem begins by listing cliched gifts that people give and receive for Valentines day. As poem progresses, Duffy explores pain and hurt that's associated with love and ends poem with a negative tone and hint of danger
• "not a red rose of a satin heart" - confident tone, surprises reader into thinking this might be a traditional love poem having read the title
• "cling to your knife" - 'cling' repeated twice to suggest she's not going anywhere until he returns her love