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...person is possibly the most difficult task anyone can undertake, especially when one of the people seems very guarded. How can the other get through the layers to find the true individual underneath? This is the question that Suji Kim explores in her poem Monologue for an Onion. This paper explores the poet’s use of metaphor (the veil of the eye and the heart that beats a person to death), to describe a strained relationship.
Discussion
Several sources have taken the poem at face value: arguing that the poem is literally about the feelings of an onion as a person cuts it up (Bussey, 2006). Bussey saw the violence of the poem but apparently missed the fact that the onion itself is a metaphorical representation of a human being. Seeing the onion as merely an onion robs the poem of any true meaning; it’s impossible to believe that the second person (the you in the poem) would become so agitated over failing to understand a root vegetable.
At any rate, the narrator,...