Memoir about my life in six words.
Poor begining. Hard work. Rich future.
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When I read Briar Rose there were a couple of motifs that I noticed that came up more than once. Three of them that came up in Briar Rose only were eyes burnt out by cigarettes, prison, and also scoured tounges. I think they are grotesque imagery. Two more that were in both the Gold Key and Briar Rose were daddy and Presto. Im not sure why she uses those words.
To me the Gold Key foreshadows that there is going to be alot of poems where there is a boy looking for something, in most cases it is a girl. The reason that I think this is because Sexton talks about a boy who finds something then goes on to find something else. Also it could foreshadow curisoity in the characters to come, because the boy she is writing about seem curiois because he would find something and look for something else.

A horse misused upon the road
Calls to heaven for human blood.
Each outcry of the hunted hare
A fibre from the brain does tear.
I think this means that every person that gets mistreated wants to seek revenge and every time someone crys out because of something you did it will stay in your mind forever.Also he uses symbols. I think horse means person and road means life. Human blood means revenge.Outcry is emotion and hunted hare is the person being bullied. The last line I am not sure.
One literary device he uses is ambiguuty because that stanza is vague and there are many interprotations that can come out of that.