This love poem totally gets that feeling of always ... begins “Secret” by describing the song she would write for her lover, but she then reveals the song can be played only deep in her ...

Duffy uses the metaphor of an onion to describe the complexity of love in her poem 'Valentine'. "Not a red rose or a satin heart. I give you an onion." On the face of it, Carol Ann Duffy’s ...

The writing in this poem is taut, graceful and intelligent ... of—this lack of conventional beauty, the speaker’s love for her is sincere, and he wouldn’t have it any other way.