Personification Of Loss In Saturday's Child

The Effects of Parental Neglect The book, The Secret Life of Bees, is about a girl named Lily who accidently killed her mother when she was young. She was neglected and mistreated by her father, which then leads her to go on a journey in order to find out the truth about her mother’s life. The poem, “Saturday's Child”, is about a person who feels neglection due to their mother's death because of their upbringing and was brought up in poverty. In “Saturday's Child” Countee Cullen uses descriptive diction and the personification of loss to portray the effects of being neglected by parents which relates to Lily’s lack of a mother figure in The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. Throughout the poem the speaker describes the effects

In “Saturday's Child” the speaker uses personification of loss. The speaker personified when they are talking about how their mother died while in childbirth. The speaker asserts, “Death cut the strings that gave me life/and handed me to Sorrow”(Cullen 17-18). When the speaker describes, “ Death cut the strings…”, It personifies that their mother died after giving birth to them. Then when the speaker says, “...handed me to sorrow”, it personifies the feeling of sadness and suffering due to the death of their mother. The speaker uses personification to assure that the readers know they feel neglection of not having a mother after they killed her from childbirth and how the guilt of doing it has stuck with the speaker since they were born. Within the book The Secret Life of Bees, the personification of loss is used to convey the theme. Lily wants to hold her mother's things so she waits until its dark to do so. Having the ability to hold her mother's things gives Lily light and happiness. She says, “when the darkness had pulled the moon to the top of the sky”(Kidd 22). When the author says, “darkness had pulled the moon to the top of the sky”, it personifies that the darkness is Trays neglection to Lily, but knowing Lily had her mother's things gave Lily light and reinsurance she will be okay. Kidds use of language helps the reader to understand

Both the speaker and Lily were neglected children that longed a mother and to be loved. Being neglected by parents caused damage in the speaker and Lily's self and made them feel unlovable and broken. In conclusion, the loss of both their mothers created a hard life and a feeling of neglect by their