Rising Through Lifes Destruction essays

Rising Through Life's Destruction essays In this world many things that used to be knew and wonderful lose their beauty and rot into old pieces of garbage. In the poem Miss Rosie by Lucille Clifton the woman once was beautiful and knew but as time progressed she turned into a body of useless woman. All people in life have problems with finding the person that they want to become. Miss Rosie is not only useless but she is "surrounded by the smell/ of too old potato peels." The potato peels in her life represent the fact that her life has become nothing and she has just sat there and done nothing to try and help it. By the potato peels surrounding her she is unable to escape the scent of what her life has become because the garbage is so powerful it overcomes Miss Rosie. She is wrapped up like garbage and has a lot to offer the world but instead of showing people the good side to the rose she is still and does nothing about it and only shows people the outer part of herself. Although Miss Rosie's life is mainly surrounded by trash she does find the inner strength to show herself that she needs to fix what her life has become or she will end up being surrounded by bad things the rest of her life. Miss Rosie's father is also a useless man and Miss Rosie realizes that if she doesn't do something about herself soon that she is going to turn into her father. She is the little toe that is cut out of her father's shoe but she still has hope that she can overcome the spot that she is in her life. As Miss Rosie sits she learns that in life you have to do things for yourself and can't wait around for someone to do them for her. All Miss Rosie's life someone has done everything for her and she has been able to go through life without really thinking. As she waits for next week's grocery's it dons upon her that her life has become next week's grocery's. Her life is replaceable and that whatever it was that was getting her through lif ...