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Love is not a clich? It is unique and often unconventional, and shouldn’t be generalized by superficial, conventional symbolisms. Whether we represent our love with an onion or a satin heart, it is a human feeling, not a material object, and each love is different. The poet shows us how love is a deep, stinging, confusing emotion, a metaphorical onion. Like an onion, love grows and matures, peels away layers of well-crafted fa?de, revealing our inner self. Although love can change our perceptions and realities, it is coldly truthful about who we are as emotional beings. At the start of the poem, Carol Ann Duffy introduces the idea that love is a personal, intimate emotion; in this poem it is expressed as a gift - “I give you an onion?although love is not a gift, it is something which we fall into, unavoidably.
Approximate Word count = 534 Approximate Pages = 2.1 (250 words per page double spaced)
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