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Analysis Of Quilts By Nikki Giovanni

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After analyzing “Quilts”, it's clear the poem is about aging and loneliness. Also giving us the perspective of how Giovanni is telling us about her idea of getting old and how it's affecting her. It also gives us a lot of insight into what kind of tone she uses when she gives the idea of getting old, even a sign of imagery, symbol, tone, and metaphor. With those ideas that have been shown in this poem it helps us know what this poem is about. In the poem “Quilts' ' also states that this story is about aging and that she is scared to be lonely and how she would want company. There are many references to aging and loneliness in this poem “Quilts” and how there is beauty and bad things in getting old. How also aging is a part of going through …show more content…

She writes “Like a fading piece of cloth/ I am a failure”(1-2). The symbol that is shown in this is that she is comparing herself to a cloth and saying that a cloth is now old and that it has no use. She also states that she has no purpose as she compares herself to the cloth and the cloth symbolizes her, an old woman. Another quote is “Dazzled the sunlight with my / Reflection”(5-6). The quote says that she shines in the “sunlight” with her beauty and says that her reflection and the light of the sun shine onto her and she could see the beauty of herself and what she used to look like …show more content…

The author says “ I grow old through Pleased with my memories/ The task I can no longer complete/ are balanced by the love of the task gone past”(1-3). The kind of emotion that she is giving us is the sense of getting old knowing that she had made memories and that she is happy with the ones she made. The task that she couldn't do is because she grew old and was not able to do that but she did find a way to accept the task that she couldn't do in her life or the things that she wanted to she couldn't but she did replace and find a way through that with “love”. However she found ways to accept it being old through her memories and the love that she had found in this quote has shown

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