I have come to the conclusion that “Sunday Greens” has been altered from the common cliché “Sunday Blues.” “Sunday Blues” is a phrase that one would use when he or she is sad about the weekend ending. The phrase would commonly be used on a Sunday afternoon or evening, when the realization of the weekend ending is being discovered. Coming up with this accusation, I have figured out that modifying the term was the first step for the character in the poem to change her life. By simply changing a commonly used phrase, it was one step closer for the woman to revise her dull, tedious life, for the better. Changing the term represents the woman breaking free from the handcuffs that is her dreary, uneventful life and gives the new phrase a fresh, hopeful look that will illustrate a new, happy