Vegetable Love In Texas

Poetry provides a place for authors to express their emotions in many ways. It allows authors to use literary devices to display emotion more deeply. It provides a way to display a message in many different ways, even the poem's structure can be part of it. The poem, “Vegetable Love in Texas”, by Carol Coffe Reposais about a lady and her tomatoes. She talks about how much she loves them and praises them. However, she then talks about how the sky melts us like a crucible. She compares her tomatoes and the sky to different things so she can show them in a new light. “Vegetable Love in Texas,” by Carol Coffe Reposais uses metaphors and similes of the tomatoes and the weather to create a theme of hope.
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In the last stanza, she finished talking about how bad the summer was and how her harvest was feeble. Then she starts talking about the few tomatoes she has and starts comparing them to things that are seen as good. This is the final shift in the poem and it is a very positive one and shows a change for the better. When describing her tomatoes she says, “Red like a favorite dress,/Warm like a dance,/Lush like a kiss long desired,/Firm like a vow, the hope of rain.”(Reposa 25-28) All of these things are identifibly positive and display a true happiness. By repeating the word, “like,” in all of these sentences she not only makes it a simile , but catches the readers attention, and emphises the connection between the tomatoes and these feelings. It may be the case that tomatoes are a symbol for good things. If this is so, then even though she says, “This feeble harvest,”(Reposa 23) That just means that each tomato, or good thing, is even more valuable then before. This contributes to the theme of hope by showing that even though things may be bad, the good moments make it better. The similies contribute to the theme by showing that the tomatoes that she has, although few, are great and the future is looking