In this world many things that used to be knew and wonderful lose their beauty and rot into old pieces of garbage. In the poem Miss Rosie by Lucille Clifton the woman once was beautiful and knew but as time progressed she turned into a body of useless woman. All people in life have problems with finding the person that they want to become.
Miss Rosie is not only useless but she is "surrounded by the smell/ of too old potato peels." The potato peels in her life represent the fact that her life has become nothing and she has just sat there and done nothing to try and help it. By the potato peels surrounding her she is unable to escape the scent of what her life has become because the garbage is so powerful it overcomes Miss Rosie. She is wrapped up like garbage and has a lot to offer the world but instead of showing people the goo
All people in life can become something that they wished they hadn't become. But in life the truly strong people are the ones that can see through their troubles and fix their problem. Miss Rosie rised above all the bad things in her life and showed herself the true Miss Rosie.
is going to turn into her father. She is the little toe that is cut out of her father's shoe but she still has hope that she can overcome the spot that she is in her life. As Miss Rosie sits she learns that in life you have to do things for yourself and can't wait around for someone to do them for her. All Miss Rosie's life someone has done everything for her and she has been able to go through life without really thinking. As she waits for next week's grocery's it dons upon her that her life has become next week's grocery's. Her life is replaceable and that whatever it was that was getting h
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