Young Love Tweens
This idea of the girl being the sun is not uncommon in young love. Tweens first experience in romance tends to seem far more serious than it truly is. Young love is innocent, which is why it is affectionately referred to as puppy love. Tweens say I love you to each other without quite knowing the true meaning of the phrase yet, and they think they will be with the person they are seeing forever. Little girls get carried away with planning their weddings and finding a prince charming, and this innocence and naivety is not completely lost in the transition to adulthood. Tweens explore love for the first time from a place of infatuation and general fascination, and the speaker's first experience is no different. This girl lights up his day, changing a cold December day
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This light is seen once more when the speaker describes the orange he peels as he sits next to the girl while she eats her chocolate. The orange "[t]hat was so bright against/ The gray of December/ that, from some distance, / Someone might have thought / I was making a fire in my hands" (lines 52-55) is quite important here. Throughout the poem, the girl represents light in the face of December to the speaker, but here a shift occurs. The orange takes on the role of light against the cold December day, even used as an implied metaphor for fire. The comparison between the contrast of the orange to the bleak December day and the girl, with both being described as "bright" at some point in a poem, creates a connection between the two. The girl is the fiery sun to the speaker, as described before, but she also warms him like a "fire in [his] hands" (line 55). This description captures the intensity of the feelings of infatuation and young love, with a warm, happy feeling inside. Not only are these warm fuzzy feelings a normal part of young love, they also are in contrast to the cold winter
This light is seen once more when the speaker describes the orange he peels as he sits next to the girl while she eats her chocolate. The orange "[t]hat was so bright against/ The gray of December/ that, from some distance, / Someone might have thought / I was making a fire in my hands" (lines 52-55) is quite important here. Throughout the poem, the girl represents light in the face of December to the speaker, but here a shift occurs. The orange takes on the role of light against the cold December day, even used as an implied metaphor for fire. The comparison between the contrast of the orange to the bleak December day and the girl, with both being described as "bright" at some point in a poem, creates a connection between the two. The girl is the fiery sun to the speaker, as described before, but she also warms him like a "fire in [his] hands" (line 55). This description captures the intensity of the feelings of infatuation and young love, with a warm, happy feeling inside. Not only are these warm fuzzy feelings a normal part of young love, they also are in contrast to the cold winter