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Sugar cane: This picture shows how big sugar cane is how hard it must have been to cut. You get the idea of how hard it was to have that task along with taking care of children and house work. In the poem the person has many tasks other then cutting the sugar can and yet there is so much that goes into cutting the cane.

Hut: This is just a picture of a possible home for this character, to clean this along with keeping children safe and clean in it must of been quite a job. They also mention that they are cooking in this hut and you can see that the tools wouldn't be very advanced in any form of a hut.

This picture conveys the love in this poem. It shows what she does all of the work and effort she put in and why. It is evident that she did her correct role in her life and she does it to care for her children and that she doesn't mind doing ll the work because she knows that it is helping.When she talks about the weather an dhow good it makes her feel its as if when he snow hits her face or the sunshine heats her up, its almost a comforter or a wake up to remind her of why she puts all in so much effort.

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One may wonder how this poem is a love poem, many times when one refers to a love poem they are referring to a couple's love and the lust the two people have for each other. You must read the poem more then once to infer that it is about love. When I read this poem at first I thought that it was a woman that was complaining yet she was content with her life but the second time I read it I realized that the line that says "You're all that I can call my own" she is talking about how she wouldn't have it any other way and that everything that she does goes into make her life what it is. The character in this poem is an exemplification of a labor of love. She tend to the many things in her life because she knows it is for the people she loves and that is her duty as a mother. This is a poem of love because although the character doesn't describe what or whom she loves we know by the way she describes her daily chores that she loves what she does with her life.

When the author describes her emotions in the form of weather and how it feels in the different types of weather that occur to her surroundings it displays a form of compassion and relief to her daily life and those moments make her life easier therefore more lovable. For example when she describes the sunshine the reader can feel or know how comforting and warm sunshine can make you feel and how she goes straight from sunshine to rain it is as if she enjoys the warmth and the rain just cools her down and quenches her. You know she is talking about her love because of the language she uses when describing the weather, she uses words like "softly, dewdrops" and phrases like "shine on me". She uses her imagination with the weather to show her love. During her daily chores she knows that she is allowed to let her mind and imagination wonder. She imagines that she is floating across the sky and that she is getting icy kisses. She talks about the relief that she will get when she gets to retire at the end of the night to gaze upon the star and moon filled sky. — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — I think the purpose of this poem is to show that love can be found in daily life chores and that the small relaxing things can make your life so much easier and happy. I think that the author did a good job by making us think about if the character loved what she did or was miserable and over time and reading the poem over and over again you realize that between motherhood and her daily chores she has in the hut and the sugar cane, she loves what happens in between.