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Flakes of Light: Reflections on Life, Death, and Acceptance of AIDS

The poem "Flakes of the Light Falling" explores themes of life, death, and the impacts of AIDS. The speaker reflects on the harsh realities of mortality, stating that one in four people vanish as they speak, with babies being born already dying. Through metaphors and similes, the poem illustrates the pervasive sadness of loss, acceptance of fate, and the longing to address the tragedy of AIDS. It challenges readers to confront the issue rather than ignore it, emphasizing the need for awareness and action against the epidemic.

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Flakes of Light: Reflections on Life, Death, and Acceptance of AIDS

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  1. Flakes of the Light Falling We think that this will be about people dying, and that it’s called that because everything will fall apart.

  2. Paraphrase The speaker says that one in four vanish, even as they speak. It says that babies are born dying. For the most part, everyone dies.

  3. Connotation In the poem the speaker says “…people emerge dying.” The speaker means that babies are born with AIDS and that they died.

  4. Similes and Metaphors Metaphor- “Light and without technique they are dying slowly and beyond the duration of love” We think that this one means that people are dying and it’s beyond the point where love can fix it. Metaphor- “metaphors of love crack open, out of their varnished shells people emerge dying.” That means that babies are born dying because they are born with AIDS. Metaphor- “approximately and here also one in four vanishing…” The speaker means that every one in four people die and vanish from AIDS. Simile/Personification- “all night my little clock makes a vastly solemn noise like a child treading the long dark passage in her grandfather’s shoes” Here, we think that the speaker is thinking about their own grandchildren or beloveds, and the clock reminds him of his/her own granddaughter. Simile- “among blades of grass, against crumbled walls let cows offer their udder to the babies lying upturned, helpless as beetles” Here the speaker talks about how orphaned babies lay near walls outside with no one to take care of them. Metaphor- “we are ending, we are ending flakes of the light falling away” The flakes of light the speaker talks about are like bits of an old life, and they’re falling away because the ways of their old life are lost.

  5. Attitude The speaker seems like they’re accepting that they’re going to die from AIDS, and they’re just waiting for it to happen. The poet’s attitude is that they’re sad and unlike the speaker they won’t accept that people are dying from AIDS, and they want to do something about it.

  6. Shift There really isn’t a shift in this poem, it’s sad and almost regretful all the way through. The speaker just accepts that dying is his fate and that’s how it’s going to be.

  7. Title (after reading the poem) The title actually means that the way that their life was before, full of light and life, is falling away because of AIDS.

  8. Theme We think that the theme is that we shouldn’t just turn a blind eye to the fact that AIDS kills one in four people. We should do something to help stop it.

  9. Written By: Jordan Wasserman, Mackenzie Boisjolie, Paige Huewe

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