A quilt is a type of blanket that is often made up of different pieces of fabric. “The Century Quilt” by Marilyn Nelson Waniek is a poem about the importance of family, a sense of security, and the nostalgic feeling that accompanies a person as they grow older. Firstly, each stanza of this poem looks like a patch on a quilt. Some of the stanzas are larger than others, and every stanza is different from the rest. None of the stanzas would make sense without the others. Similarly, the quilt patches do not look right without the other patches to complete the picture. Every stanza alternates the tense; stanzas one and three are reflections of the past while stanzas two and four show the speaker’s current thoughts. The third stanza indicates
