She writes “As if my life were shaven, / And fitted to a frame” (13,14) to portray herself as a toy in someone else’s game of life. Her life is “shaven” to expose it at it's most bare and fitted to a frame to be stuck that way for eternity. At this point in the poem she feels that her life is confusing and out of her control. She writes “And could not breathe without a key”(15) to extrapolate her fear of being trapped in her life. She is unsure what her life is, but she knows that it suffocates her and exposes her in unnatural ways. In the first stanza she wrote that “it was not night”(3) but in the fourth stanza she writes “‘twas like midnight”(16). This contrast shows a changing perspective on her life. She is beginning to understand and accept that her life is hard, and instead of denying the darkness she admits that her life was “like
She writes “As if my life were shaven, / And fitted to a frame” (13,14) to portray herself as a toy in someone else’s game of life. Her life is “shaven” to expose it at it's most bare and fitted to a frame to be stuck that way for eternity. At this point in the poem she feels that her life is confusing and out of her control. She writes “And could not breathe without a key”(15) to extrapolate her fear of being trapped in her life. She is unsure what her life is, but she knows that it suffocates her and exposes her in unnatural ways. In the first stanza she wrote that “it was not night”(3) but in the fourth stanza she writes “‘twas like midnight”(16). This contrast shows a changing perspective on her life. She is beginning to understand and accept that her life is hard, and instead of denying the darkness she admits that her life was “like