Li Young Lee Analysis

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Li-Young Lee uses repetition to establish the importance of little things in life.

“dusty skin and all, comes the familiar dust of summer, dust we eat.”
“ from joy to joy to joy, from wing to wing, from blossom to blossom to impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.

Li - Young Lee uses the form of dust to show the end of something. How I took this is the dust is snow ,which means it's winter. This obviously means that summer has ended. But I also looked at it like dust could be someone's live. When you get older you stop doing stuff and a lot of dust starts to build up then when you die a lot of dust build up because you are no longer there to clean it.
The author keeps restating joy, wing, and blossom. To me it's the joy of that moment or in this case the peach, the wing is the time that has passed and maybe some sorrow, then the blossom is optimally the start of something knew or the memory of that happy event.
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“O , to take what we love inside, to carry within us an orchard, to eat not only the skin, but the shade, not only the sugar, but the days, to hold the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into the round jubilance of peach.”

The author repeats the sense of joy many times in this stanza. I think this repetition is used to show how little things can lead to the most joy.

To wrap up my opinion Li-Young Lee uses repetition to show how important little things in life are and that we should cherish them and find the joy in them.

By using symbolism, Li-Young Lee shows the readers that something as simple as a peach can make memories that last a lifetime.

“ dusty skin and all, comes the familiar dust of summer, dust we