In Marigolds by Eugenia W. Collier, the narrator expresses a blissful and ignorant tone about her life before the loss of innocence through the use of denotation and connotation. The narrator demonstrates bliss when she feels “nostalgia” reminiscing about her mixed childhood feelings that held “joy” and “gladness” (Paragraph 2). The denotation of “nostalgia” is a wistful desire to return to a former time in one’s life meaning that the narrator desires to return back to her childhood. More often than not, one would only want to return back to a blissful past. Furthermore, “joy” and “gladness” is synonymous with bliss and is used to emphasize the happy feelings of the narrator as a child. In addition, the narrator experienced a “reverie” (Paragraph
