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How does Carol Ann Duffy vividly capture the pain that love can bring in…

- - - - the primary thoughts one feels when looking at the love letters again - embarrassment, pain, nostalgia.
    - - At this point in the poem, Duffy introduces the idea of the primary feelings which resurface in the mind, such as pain and embarrassment.
    - - the imagery of an animal coming out of hibernation, with the lighting hurting its eyes is present in the quote 'some keep them in shoe boxes away from the light, sore memories blinking out as the lid lifts'
      - Duffy introduces the emotion of embarrassment to the reader, noting the 'private jokes' they had that were once hilarious, but are now just dull and uninteresting. not only is there embarrassment in the 'no longer comprehended' private jokes, there is the mention of recklessness, which one would sigh at and think, 'what on earth was I doing?', all in the rapid rush that is love, when actions and words are not often considered.
  - - - the main focus in this stanza is the open and joyous effect a love affair can have on a person
    - - the poet goes onto reflect the consequential opening of feelings and joy amid the course of a love affair
    - - Duffy adds a slightly cynical note into her reflections, mirroring the state of the relationship over a period of time with the love letters which 'start with Darling; end in recriminations'
      - here the poet focuses on the stereotypical palm reader's prediction, that you will be with this man forever, and how she believed that as a young lover, in the quote resembling the action of palmistry, 'the fingers trace each line and see the future then'. the word 'Always' followed by the ellipsis suggests the reflection of that word, and how it was never meant to be forever and 'always'
  - - - Carol Ann Duffy has come to a conclusion about love to finish the last stanza of her poem.
    - - Duffy concludes by reaching a realistic note on the action of continuously looking at the letters, and the negative effects of reminiscing on lost and now dead love
    - - there is a similar sound in the quote ' the heart thudding like a spade on buried bones' and is one of the many images of death in 'The 'Darling' letters'. both actions are dull, and the action of digging up buried bones is widely regarded as disrespectful and a fruitless exercise, rounding off the conclusion of you are only reminding yourself of something you have lost and can never get back
- - - - this is the explanation behind the ironic titles
- - - - 'like a moon wrapped in brown paper'
    - - 'its scent will cling to your fingers'
    - - 'like the careful undressing of love’
    - - such as in the quote 'will blind you with tears like a lover'
      - this quote suggests how one can be seriously hurt in a relationship, when you're in such a vulnerable situation with another being the navigator of your feelings, but also the positive side, about how you can be so in love with someone that they can do no wrong in your eyes
    - - The word ‘shrink’ implies that marriage is restrictive, displaying the unromantic side, the downsides of marriage with the cynical view of the poem.
  - - - Misleading
      - Ironic
    - - 'blind you with tears like a lover'
    - - ambivalent
        
        Duffy uses many phrases as a double meaning, such as 'it will blind you like a lover
      - diminishes as the poem progresses
        
        mirrors the inevitable course of love, and how it lessens as time goes on
      - interior thoughts and feelings of anger, regret, heartache
      - topic sentence