An Easy Passage Flashcards
Silver anklet
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
Shade , warm flank
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
Only long stanza
Growing up has no breaks suggesting it is difficult
Grains of asphalt , square of petrified beach
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
Half in love
Erotic relationships before embarking on a more mature relationship when social confinement makes this awkward
Flush faced secretary
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
Subordinate clause
Adds tension in both tfdit and an easy passage
Title
Irony