Wisdom Of Shelly Analysis

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The poem, Wisdom of Shelly, written by George Elliot Clarke, is describing an abusive and unsafe relationship from a child point of view. From my understanding it think the poem is describing how the father or husband was not in the mother and child’s life for a long period of time but tries to convince the family he changed with a couple of roses. In the picture, I included a field of roses, which I took from the line “bristlin’ with roses.” I was trying to capture the sense of the child’s point of view that even if you bring a million roses, it will not change you as a person. I added the rocks in the water because it brought down the mood of the picture to make it feel sadder because of the misty and dark colours. Next, I added the eye at

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