Amy Lowell Fireworks

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In Amy Lowell’s “Fireworks,” Lowell shows the dangers of holding onto a bad relationship. Lowel uses the connotations of fireworks to establish the peril that can come with the joys of fireworks. “ Lowell uses imagery to enforce this danger that may come with seeing someone you’ve had a defective relationship with. “And go up in a flaming wonder / Of saffron cubes, and crimson moons” (14,15). The use of warm colors, like red, links to the risk of this relationship. The sharp edges and points of the shapes displayed could also signify the danger of being with this particular person again. When they meet their mixed energy creates a dangerous atmosphere that the narrator should remove themselves from. Lowell also uses the connotations of fireworks

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