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Summary Of Good Times By Lucille Clifton

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In the poem Good Times by Lucille Clifton the speaker is a child that is comes from a low income family. Throughout the poem the speaker describes the good times by saying that the lights are back on and her mother has made bread. These seemly little events are the reasons why their family is drunk and dancing in the kitchen. Clifton exercises the use of repetition in her poem by repeating the phrase “good times”. By repeating this phrase numerous times throughout the poem it creates a theme, and causes the reader to focus on the good times. In the second stanza Clifton uses the word drunk to describe her family. Drunk has two meanings in this situation. First, her family is literally drunk, however the connotation that comes with this word
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