An Easy Passage Flashcards

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Silver anklet

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Imagery of adult life but also an image of slavery alluding to how she is confided to the conforms of adult expectorations - travel, bills, etc

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Shade , warm flank

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Light vs dark imagery suggesting the future is negative giving the girls hesitancy a meaning. She is only leaning in with a desire to keep the warm flank of childhood

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Only long stanza

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Growing up has no breaks suggesting it is difficult

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Grains of asphalt , square of petrified beach

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Alludes to the difficulties of the climb to adulthood the square of petrified beach also alludes to this yet as a quantitative measure of pain she has experienced . A square being very little

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Half in love

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Erotic relationships before embarking on a more mature relationship when social confinement makes this awkward

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Flush faced secretary

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The adult world literally intrude structurally in the poem as we hear the secretary’s perspective . She also serves as a look into the girls future , that of wishing for something else

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Subordinate clause

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Adds tension in both tfdit and an easy passage

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Title

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Irony

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