Analysing Carol Ann Duffy's 'Valentine' (Part One) - DystopiaJunkie Analysis

This video is the first part of my analysis of 'Valentine' by Carol Ann Duffy, which is part of the WJEC Eduqas English Literature Poetry Anthology. In this video, I cover the poem's context and begin to analyse its language, imagery, and structure, which I hope should give you plenty of useful notes for your GCSE studies! If you've found this video helpful, useful, or interesting, don't forget to drop it a like, subscribe to my channel, and turn on that notification bell, so that all future GCSE English Literature revision content ends up straight in your subscription feed! You're welcome to use the comments section to ask me questions about the poem, add your own pieces of analysis, or to let me know which parts of the video you found the most useful! Thanks to my amazingly talented friend Charlie for creating my channel icon, banner, and watermark! You can find more examples of his phenomenal work here: https://charlielanebush.com/ Don't forget to follow @DystopiaJunkie on Instagram and Twitter for more updates!

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