why might the narrator in marigolds describe her feelings about the time period as a poignant? what does her use of that word suggest about the events she is describing
The period is poignant because as children our perceptions of summer revolve around the change of seasons, the beginning of school, and the expectations of colder days. The poignancy comes from the stark reality that summer is coming to an end.
As I think of those days I feel most poignantly the tag end of summer, the bright, dry times when we began to have a sense of shortening days and the imminence of the cold.
Marigolds
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