The poem is made of metaphors which describe unpleasant feelings of the creator and not looking forward to her pregnancy. She structured her poem with cardinal sentences with nine syllables each, so it symbolises the entire time of the pregnancy. When I original read it, I got a feeling that the first reference ( first trimester) starts with some positive mood, but indeed it is not.
She describes herself as a riddle, which could mean that she is pregnant with a first minor and its all new and mysterious for her or she realize that she is pregnant when there were already some sings of a pregnancy, which is cant gain and feeling of something inside of oneself. She seems to be really uneasy with that weight, because she describes herself as an elephant, a house filled with people and watermelon that walks on tendrils. I believe she refers to the tendrils as to her legs, that are so thin and weak to hold such a macroscopical belly.
In the second part (second trimester) this woman really cries out: O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers! that means how her mood and feelings have changed to doubt and despair. She again refers to her pregnant condition, saying that she is getting bigger and bigger. She is rising as a...If you want to get a copious essay, order it on our website: Orderessay
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