People often become aware of what is happening in their life when something tragic or something out of the ordinary happens. Life is a changing thing and change is an inevitable factor. Instances of change can be seen in the poems Root Cellar by Theodore Roethke, Eating Together by Li-Young Lee, and Living in Sin by Adrienne Rich. The value of the change that is occurring is great although the event causing the change may seem small or insignificant at the time. The life cycle of birth, maturity, and death are what all humans experience in a full span of life and it is not always an easy journey.
Theodore Roethke’s Root Cellar depicts the life of the speaker through the metaphorical use of plants. Much like many things on Earth, plants go through a cycle of life. Plants start off as seeds, then they grow roots and leaves, transition into small plants, finally they become mature plants that contain seeds, and then the cycle starts all over. In the beginning, Roethke paints a dark, vivid picture of the cellar in which the plants are in describing it as “dank as a ditch”(Roethke 1) and having “leaf-mold, manure, lime, piled against slippery planks”(Roethke 9). The description of the cellar ultimately describes the speaker 's mindset about their life which would ironically be considered lifeless and dark. However, light can be found even in the darkest of places and in the second line of his work of art …show more content…
Bulbs looking for light help infer that the speaker has gained a sense of willingness and wants to look for a way
Theodore Roethke’s Root Cellar depicts the life of the speaker through the metaphorical use of plants. Much like many things on Earth, plants go through a cycle of life. Plants start off as seeds, then they grow roots and leaves, transition into small plants, finally they become mature plants that contain seeds, and then the cycle starts all over. In the beginning, Roethke paints a dark, vivid picture of the cellar in which the plants are in describing it as “dank as a ditch”(Roethke 1) and having “leaf-mold, manure, lime, piled against slippery planks”(Roethke 9). The description of the cellar ultimately describes the speaker 's mindset about their life which would ironically be considered lifeless and dark. However, light can be found even in the darkest of places and in the second line of his work of art …show more content…
Bulbs looking for light help infer that the speaker has gained a sense of willingness and wants to look for a way