The Scales - “Myself When I’m Real.”
The scales are representative of the speaker’s existent persona. The intactness of the fish scales surmises that fundamental personality individualities that have not been upset.
‘Wishing-well’ - “Myself When I’m Real.”
The speaker cites “the deep-wishing well/that starfish fell Into” to validate her stability. The speaker rises above the “deep-wishing well” for she does not yield to its depth (which signifies fantasy). If the speaker were to acknowledge that she is in the well, then it would have been realistic to presuppose that she is delusional.
Coffee Black - “Myself When I’m Real.”
The speaker notifies her lover, “ You pour my coffee black.” The coffee black embodies the magnitude of the speaker’s love. The fondness is as concerted as the blackness of the coffee.
“Two sets of blue” - “Ars Poetica”
The speaker observes, “The ocean cut its sky two sets of blue.” From the perspective of poetry, the two sets symbolize the binary oppositions that fragment a poem.
A Horizon - “Ars Poetica”
With regard to the horizon, the speaker expounds, “ A horizon bleeds at sunset.” The bleeding takes place after the detection of the “two sets of blue.” Since the bleeding weakens the blueness, it characterizes the disassembling of binaries.
