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    This poem describes the speaker's childhood memories of living in a dusty town and Miss Lottie's marigolds. The speaker remembers vividly Miss Lottie and her marigolds from long ago. The poem depicts a night of terror and tears when the speaker runs to Miss Lottie's house, seeing the marigolds dancing in the wind as if laughing at her. Filled with anger, the speaker burns the marigolds. The poem ends with the speaker remembering Miss Lottie's eyes filled with sadness and the marigolds remaining vivid in her heart forever.

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    This poem describes the speaker's childhood memories of living in a dusty town and Miss Lottie's marigolds. The speaker remembers vividly Miss Lottie and her marigolds from long ago. The poem depicts a night of terror and tears when the speaker runs to Miss Lottie's house, seeing the marigolds dancing in the wind as if laughing at her. Filled with anger, the speaker burns the marigolds. The poem ends with the speaker remembering Miss Lottie's eyes filled with sadness and the marigolds remaining vivid in her heart forever.

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    This poem describes the speaker's childhood memories of living in a dusty town and Miss Lottie's marigolds. The speaker remembers vividly Miss Lottie and her marigolds from long ago. The poem depicts a night of terror and tears when the speaker runs to Miss Lottie's house, seeing the marigolds dancing in the wind as if laughing at her. Filled with anger, the speaker burns the marigolds. The poem ends with the speaker remembering Miss Lottie's eyes filled with sadness and the marigolds remaining vivid in her heart forever.

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    Xinyu Zhou

    English 1 Adv
    Ms.Shaffer
    29 August 2016
    Poem
    Marigold
    It is the dusty town where I used to live
    And Miss Lotties marigolds
    Vivid in the deep of my memory
    From long, long ago
    `
    Am I a girl or woman?
    I thought as the children laughed
    And the marigold falls
    And Miss Lottie raged
    Fathers sobbing, mothers comforting
    Came in the middle of the night
    Directly into my ears
    Then terror and tears comes
    I run and run
    To Miss Lotties house
    The marigolds danced in the cold wind
    Seems like laughing at me
    The fire of anger burned in me
    Also burned the marigolds
    Miss Lotties eyes
    Full of sadness and sorrow
    It is the dusty town where I used to live
    And my marigolds
    Vivid in the deep of my heart
    Angelic and fair forever

    Literary Devices:

    "I feel again the chaotic emotions of adolescence, illusive as smoke, yet as real as the potted
    geranium before me now." (simile)
    "...but memory is an abstract painting- it does not present things as they are, but rather as they
    feel."(metaphor)
    "My father whittled toys for us, and laughed so loud that the great oak seemed to laugh with
    him..."(hyperbole)
    "...our hatred of it was still the vague, undirected restlessness of the zoo-bred flamingo who
    knows that nature created him to fly free."(metaphor)
    My mothers voice was like a cool, dark room in summerpeaceful, soothing, quiet. (simile)

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