Women On A Beach Poem

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The poem “Women On A Beach” by Anne Michaels is full of many different types and pieces of imagery and symbolism that make the every day in the poem special in many different ways. One big piece of imagery and symbolism that make the day special in this poem is the personification of different non-living things on the beach. In this poem many things like the night and the wind are given human properties like “the wind's finger” and how the “Night exhales its long held breath”(Anne Michaels, line 9,10). This makes the day in the poem unique by making the beach seem alive and magical with the human traits it has been given. Another way imagery and symbolism makes the everyday unique is the many different metaphors used to describe things. This
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