Heartache has the ability to fill someone with bitterness, so much that it leaves them questioning the relationship that left them feeling hurt and abandoned. When someone endures heartache, they allow their emotions to entrap them in what seems to be a never ending cycle of denial, failure to accept, questioning, acceptance, and reminiscence. This vicious pattern is unhealthy for humans, nevertheless, it is necessary for closure at the end of a painful end to a relationship. Rahila Gupta captures this heartache in her passage, “A Gift”, through her implementation of personification and similes that lend to a tone shift between hostility and bittersweet reminiscence which reinforces the theme of the importance of accepting and moving on from
