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It's about childhood and the first experience of death.
Her mother appears for the only time in this poem.
It was published on 10 March 1962 in The New Yorker.
Red symbolizes passion; white represents purity.
The child imagines Arthur's coffin as a frosted cake.
She creates a fantasy world to make sense of death.
They see it as concrete, then abstract with age and experience.
A bleak view encompassing confusion and lack of warmth.
Arthur's fate symbolizes the fall from greatness and hope.
It reflects on the frailty and strangeness of life.
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