The Summer I was Sixteen Precise

In the poem,  “The Summer I was Sixteen,” by Geraldine Connolly, Connolly writes in a reflective manner. In the poem, Connolly uses imagery and metaphors when creating vivid images of her summer when she was sixteen. Connolly looks back on her summer by throwing in detailed imagery when she says, “the turquoise pool” and the slide a “silver afterthought.” Connolly also uses the sense of hearing when she says they had danced to the “low beat of Duke of Earl.”  Connolly further reflects her summer eagerly when she uses metaphors and similes such as “cotton candy torches” that were “sweet as furtive kisses.” By using her many literary devices, Connolly was able to create imagery and metaphors in order to reflect on her sixteenth summer.