Her poem Variations on the Word Love discusses many forms of love, but ultimately, for me, it is a reminder of the awesome power of that emotion. She speaks of how the word "love" - only four ...
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 ...
A dedicated feminist, she wrote this poem while living with her female lover, the architect Lota de Macedo Soares, in Brazil. Love and death are both opposites and two sides of the same coin ...