"March Violets" Part 1-

"March Violets"

The title itself immediately alludes to the double meaning of the poem as a whole. Violets are associated with the month of February, yet the title suggests that they are a part of March. The title invites the reader to accept the duality of things. The poem is a representation of the two sides of a person. Can you, the individual, tell your two sides apart from one another? Can you separate who you are to society from who you truly are as person? Things aren’t as they seem. This “double-ness” continues on with “fire” and “water”. You are the aggressive and the serene. The same person who fires the gun, waters the vines in their yard. The “Ides of March” allude to the death of Cesar who was betrayed by his closest companion. This is to say don’t trust anyone, especially not yourself. The author takes the familiar, the everyday clichés and flips them, "look on the blind side, sleep with your bright side down." These sayings have been engraved in us, but who are we without the influence of others? The author wants us to question everything that we know and who knows us better than ourselves? "Can you tell them apart?" is initially written once, showing the unity a person sees in themselves. As the poem progresses, "Can you tell them apart" is written twice suggesting the two sides of a person. Finally, we see the author asking us to divide our two sides with the word "tear."

Removing the Veil of Indifference

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