Vase with Sunflowers ALARM Matrix

Literal
Flowers wilting

Figurative

Symbolism
Metaphor
Depressed
Dying
Old

Thematic
o
o
o

Youth dying
Withering
innocence
Experienced
pain

Conceptual

Flowers blooming

Metaphor
Brilliant
Life
Joyful
Innocent
Radiant
Free
Unrestraine
d

o
o
o
o

Youthful
spirit
Innocent
children
Havent
sacrificed
Yet to
experience
pain

Sacrificing
youthful
innocence
to grow up
Suffered
sacrifices
and
hardships
required to
mature
Forced by
society to
become
someone
else,
squeezed
and pulled
by the vase
into an
uncomforta
ble shape
until they
dont
recognise
themselves
Youthful
innocence
before
sacrifices
have been
made
Childhood
burns so
brightly for
the short
time it lasts,
until they
start to
grow up,
start to wilt
as their
innocence is
tarnished
Oblivious to

Flower vase

Metaphor
Small
Constraining
Constricting
Moulding
Shaping
Guiding
growth

o
o

Societys
constraints
Moulding
people in
society
The
cornerstone
of
everything

the world of
pain waiting
for them
Societys
iron-hard
shackles,
binding
people to its
structure
and making
the world
monotonous
.
All from the
same origin
Society is a
man-made
structure,
like ceramic,
and have
forced itself
to conform