Analyzing The Poem 'Pairs Of Mandarin Ducks'

My poem is titled “Pairs of Mandarin Ducks”. It utilizes structure, point of view and diction from both books to show the way the girls’ lives are interwoven. The title is a reference to Snow flower and the secret Fan. On many occasions Lily and Snow Flower referred to themselves as a pair of “mandarin ducks mated for life” () and since both their characters mirror those of Mariam and Laila, I changed the pair to pairs to incorporate all four of them. I used an ambiguous point of view, to emphasize the indistinguishable property of all the girls. Lily and snow flower are basically inseparable as are Mariam and Laila thus the point of view of the poem is abstract. Only by the context can you tell who is speaking at the moment. The overall speaker