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What Does Garden Of Gold Mean
Do you have something that is a remembrance by someone in your family or just something in general? Whether it is a holiday, a day of the year or even if it is flowers. Lois E. Felder poem “Garden of Gold” she explains that a single rose is so special to her. The poem is about her walking into the garden and was smelling the roses. When she was walking she spotted this single rose in the middle, and says that the rose means so much to her. The rose represents the love that grandma gave to her. She will always remember that garden is a “Garden of Gold”.
In “Garden of Gold” Lois E. Felder uses word choice throughout the whole poem. In the poem it states, “That grandma raised” (Felder 4). This provers Felders word choice because it said that

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