Tempting Fruits: A Comparative Analysis Of Alicante And This Is Just To Say
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Stating the obvious, the both poems mention fruits. In Alicante, the persona mentions an orange while in This is just to Say, the persona mentions plums. What do these fruits have in connection with the poem? Are they just mere objects in the poem or do they have a deeper meaning?
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.... lines were contradictory. Coolness and warmth were mentioned together. The same object, the orange, was the coolness of the night yet was the warmth of the persona’s life.
On the other hand, in This is Just to Say, the plums were eaten already by the persona. It was not offered to the persona during that time. It was not supposed to be eaten at that instant. The sexual relation in this poem was not obviously stated. It would seem that the poem was just stating a situation in which the per ....
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