Explication of "The Girl Who Loved the Sky" By Anita Endrezze

This poem attracted me because of all the sensory images. The images in this poem allowed me to visualize the girl's feelings along with each image portrayed in the poem. The author uses all five of the senses in her poem. A few examples of this are when the author says; "the room smelled like glue" and "the sky tasted like cold metal." Sensory images are used in this to help the reader visualize the blind girls surroundings especially the sky, to picture what the how the world is viewed by the blind girl. The girl was born blind and had never seen the beauty of the world so she was forced to feel and discover the world through her other senses. The author uses this method to help the reader understand the blind girl's feelings.