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In the poem, Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day, the speaker takes more time to get her point across then usual being that this poem is longer than most. The speaker addresses her issues with the audience in stanza one where she states “Don’t look now; I am fading away into the gray of my mornings.” The speaker is advising her audience to not watch her while she is at her worst where she feels as though she is becoming nothing. She continues on with stanza two stating that “[her] nails keep breaking.” The metaphor in this line justifies that the pieces of her life that hold her together keep breaking spontaneously. The poem continues as the speaker attempts to “vent” to her audience. She implies in stanza three that it seems as though no matter how hard she tries to pretend like she is worth having, no one acts like it. In stanza five, the speaker moves to speak upon her late night self-consoling strategies. The motifs that were evident to the reader consisted of: duality between dark/light, emotion, and objects. The duality provided in the poem, helps to give contrast to the surrounding of the speaker which may have had some effect on the fluctuation of her emotions. The objects that were mentioned within the poem give metaphoric imagery to the way the speaker felt about difficulty of life. In stanza five, the speaker introduces the metaphor of cotton candy in which reminded her of the possibility of life. Being that Cotton Candy can appear to be solid but eventually melts away, the reader can infer that this “possibility” that the speaker talks about comes and goes. It is sweet at first and then it simply disappears. She concludes her thoughts with stating that “[she] wants to share the dream with a vivid and graphic picture of the world to analyze on a flat surface. Even though she knows she needs a change, it is also relevant to her that the world needs affection in order for it to change as well which would keep the possibility of “better” as opposed to it just melting away.
In the poem, Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day, the speaker takes more time to get her point across then usual being that this poem is longer than most. The speaker addresses her issues with the audience in stanza one where she states “Don’t look now; I am fading away into the gray of my mornings.” The speaker is advising her audience to not watch her while she is at her worst where she feels as though she is becoming nothing. She continues on with stanza two stating that “[her] nails keep breaking.” The metaphor in this line justifies that the pieces of her life that hold her together keep breaking spontaneously. The poem continues as the speaker attempts to “vent” to her audience. She implies in stanza three that it seems as though no matter how hard she tries to pretend like she is worth having, no one acts like it. In stanza five, the speaker moves to speak upon her late night self-consoling strategies. The motifs that were evident to the reader consisted of: duality between dark/light, emotion, and objects. The duality provided in the poem, helps to give contrast to the surrounding of the speaker which may have had some effect on the fluctuation of her emotions. The objects that were mentioned within the poem give metaphoric imagery to the way the speaker felt about difficulty of life. In stanza five, the speaker introduces the metaphor of cotton candy in which reminded her of the possibility of life. Being that Cotton Candy can appear to be solid but eventually melts away, the reader can infer that this “possibility” that the speaker talks about comes and goes. It is sweet at first and then it simply disappears. She concludes her thoughts with stating that “[she] wants to share the dream with a vivid and graphic picture of the world to analyze on a flat surface. Even though she knows she needs a change, it is also relevant to her that the world needs affection in order for it to change as well which would keep the possibility of “better” as opposed to it just melting away.
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