She Boxed My Ears This Morning By Ernest Hemingway

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The narrator thinks that this woman could be the one he’s in love with. He begins to explain that she is older than he had thought her to be. The narrator begins to describe what she looks like; he says that “My fancy gave her eyes of blue, a curly auburn head.” The narrator was saying that she has pretty blue eyes and gorgeous curly auburn (reddish-brown) hair. As the poem continues, he says that “she boxed my ears this morning,” she would hit him very hard to get his attention. At the end of the second stanza, he talks about her charms being improved and some of them being removed (Carroll). In the last stanza of the poem, he talks about his fancy having “ethereal (elegant) grace”, and “she had a laugh like a hyena”. He also she said “she

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