A few blossoms float into the room. They drop like frayed yellow ribbons on the gray carpet.

Eileen Granfors
About This Quote

The speaker, in this poem, is mourning the death of a child. The passage is written in a colloquial style, and uses alliteration and assonance to add to the natural cadence of the language. The poem is filled with imagery of decay and decay; flowers wither and die; fallen leaves are piled up like tombstones.

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