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    The poem describes buying peaches from a boy at a bend in the road. It talks about how the peaches came from the blossoms on the trees and were passed down from the laden boughs to hands and bins. The narrator describes eating the peaches, skin and all, and taking in the dust and nectar of summer. Biting into the peaches gives a feeling of joy and makes it seem like death is nowhere, transitioning from one joy to another, like from blossom to blossom.

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    The poem describes buying peaches from a boy at a bend in the road. It talks about how the peaches came from the blossoms on the trees and were passed down from the laden boughs to hands and bins. The narrator describes eating the peaches, skin and all, and taking in the dust and nectar of summer. Biting into the peaches gives a feeling of joy and makes it seem like death is nowhere, transitioning from one joy to another, like from blossom to blossom.

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    FROM BLOSSOMS

    Meily 1202
    Kaeo 1202
    Pai 1202
    FROM BLOSSOMS
    From blossoms comes O, to take what we love inside,

    this brown paper bag of peaches to carry within us an orchard, to eat

    we bought from the boy not only the skin, but the shade,

    at the bend in the road where we turned toward not only the sugar, but the days, to hold

    signs painted Peaches. the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into

    the round jubilance of peach.


    From laden boughs, from hands,

    from sweet fellowship in the bins, There are days we live

    comes nectar at the roadside, succulent as if death were nowhere

    peaches we devour, dusty skin and all, in the background; from joy

    comes the familiar dust of summer, dust we eat. to joy to joy, from wing to wing,

    from blossom to blossom to

    impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.


    Overview
    ● Peaches
    ○ immortality
    ○ divine fruits of god
    ○ fertility
    ● Blossom = birth/joy
    ● Tone: nostalgic
    ○ memory

    These are useful information


    that will be mentioned later on!
    Analysis
    Stanza 1 + 2

    ● Peaches
    ● We - implication that the
    narrator is not alone

    ● “From laden… the bins” - the


    sense of something being
    passed down
    ● nectar + dust of summer -
    pollen
    ○ though, we previously thought
    it was pesticide
    ANALYSIS
    Stanza 3
    ● “take what we love inside”-
    holding on to good memories
    from the past.
    ● “not only the skin, but the
    shade,”- to appreciate the beauty
    of something.
    ● He also appreciate the value
    inside of something.
    ● “sugar”- represents the sweet
    part of the peach comparing with
    the sweet memory.
    ● “adore it”- to keep the good
    memory to yourself.
    Analysis (Stanza 4)

    “as if death is nowhere”


    ● A heartwarming feeling that comes from eating
    peach
    ● death - it's the thing that happens with sadness
    “from joy to joy to joy”
    ● More and more happiness from each time while
    biting or chewing the peach
    “impossible blossom”
    ● Feeling invincible and no fear of death
    DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

    In your own opinion, What could be the good What does the
    what is the meaning of memory that he mention of death
    the blossom ? mentioned in the poem? entail in this context?
    Thanks!

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