Poem Analysis: A Beautiful Girl Combs Her Hair

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Marissa Martin Mrs. Love Hilliard Creative Writing 30 September 2016 Confusion about the girl Every girl has hair but every girls hair is different. In A” Beautiful Girl Combs Her Hair” by Li Ho it explain the struggles of a girl doing her hair. Li Ho tells how the hair is very thick and hard to work with at times. The poem starts off with a young girl “awake at dawn” who is dreaming by silk curtains. The young girl has fragrance “spilling” out of her hair “half sandalwood, half aloes” this sets the mood for the poem. If they did not explain the fragrance spilling out of the girl's hair and her waking up by silk curtains they wouldn't have set the calm mood for the poem. Most girls don't pay attention to there hair and the way they wake

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