Light Dreamy In Inside Out

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The poem Inside out uses light dreamy tones to describe the beginning of the relationship and contrasting angry, bitter tones to describe her bad relationship. The light dreamy tones show that she had a good relationship when they first met/ got together In stanza 1 it says” I walk the purple carpet into your eye, carrying the silver butter server. This shows that the words she uses like “purple carpet”, and “sliver butter server” which shows royalty, and this is used to describe how they live and she was almost showing off to the guy using expensive things.
The tone has now changed from light and dreamy to dark and angry and to show this tone change she uses the word “but” in “but a truck rumbles by” and the truck is the man in a metaphorical

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