valentine

• ‘not a red rose or a satin heart’

  not- abrupt opening dismisses tradition

  sibilance quick portray disdain for tradition 

  truncated= not conventional
• ‘blind you with tears like a lover’

  simile

  compares tears of onion to love 

  reality of love= upset you
• ‘wobbling photo of grief’ 

  adjective image of someone distraught due to heartbreak 

  love end not forever 
• ‘i am trying to be truthful’


  alliteration persuasion of sincerity
• ‘lethal’ ‘knife’


  murder imagery. ends poem negatively suggesting pain
• ‘cling’


  repetition . never be free of emotions from a lover good/bad
• free verse. irregular stanzas. rejects traditional conventions 
• "like the careful undressing of love"


  simile. adjective suggests patience and delicacy. slow and deliberate link to love revealing itself slowly