Moreover, rather than work with the idea of fish and water which seemed to get tangled up among the other images and lead to a lot of confusion, I incorporated the image of “hollow ceramic.” This came to represent false gossip, empty lies, that ultimately still have the power to negatively impact the speaker and her/his relationship. These metaphors worked to explain the relationship between the speaker and the “you” in the poem and how “their words” affect that relationship, rather than creating elusive questions about the “we” in the first version of the
Moreover, rather than work with the idea of fish and water which seemed to get tangled up among the other images and lead to a lot of confusion, I incorporated the image of “hollow ceramic.” This came to represent false gossip, empty lies, that ultimately still have the power to negatively impact the speaker and her/his relationship. These metaphors worked to explain the relationship between the speaker and the “you” in the poem and how “their words” affect that relationship, rather than creating elusive questions about the “we” in the first version of the