The contrast between the speaker's description of herself as "a woman in jewels and lace" (line 14) and the description of "children crying for bread and fire" (line 16) primarily serves to emphasize the

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Haylee Mahoney

18 January, 17:15

The contrast between the speaker's description of herself as "a woman in jewels and lace" (line 14) and the description of "children crying for bread and fire" (line 16) primarily serves to emphasize the

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Karter Owen · Answer 1

relative triviality of the speaker's situation.

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In the poem 'Giving Back the Flower", the poet tries question the cruel fate of her lover who dies in the battle field. She tries to portray the negative effects of war and conflict in her poem. The speaker's description of herself as 'a women in jewels and lace' and the description of 'children crying for bread' serves to emphasize the relative triviality of the speaker's situation. She wants the readers to understand that there are much more bigger problems in this world than her own. She compares her problems with that of the hungry children and realizes that her problems and situation is relatively trivial than theirs.