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This 3 page paper explicates the poem “Monologue for an Onion” by Suji Kim, with attention to the metaphor of the veil and the heart. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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the true individual underneath? This is the question that Suji Kim explores in her poem Monologue for an Onion. This paper explores the poets 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; its 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, whom well call the onion for convenience,
says frankly that the endeavor is useless as well as pointless: "Hunt all you want. Beneath each skin of mine / Lies another skin: I am pure onion--pure union /
Of outside and in, surface and secret core" (Kim, 2008). In other words, the outside and inside are exactly the same, peeling away the layers will not reveal any great
secrets. And that appears to be breaking the examiners heart. The reader should keep in mind that an onion is not like an apple or pear, which actually have centers:
when we peel an onion, we do not find a core inside; after the last layer is stripped away there is nothing left. The onion is uniform all the way
through ("pure onion-pure union of outside and in"); every part of it is usable. That implies that every part of it is knowable as well, and that perhaps all this
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