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Yeah okay Reading shmoop er's Second of two on this

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poem solitaire and let's Just go right to the question

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because we've been a while reading it before the purple

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and yellow croak asses symbolized the what All right Uh

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crocuses or a flower on thinking about their purple and

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yellow So maybe there were thing from yahoo or the

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minnesota vikings Or maybe not All right Where are they

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The speaker's garden at home Vibrant dreams through That would

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be cool Way night sues people That's Weird connection to

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the past All right well poetry's all that saying something

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without actually saying it right it's like you think politicians

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and poets ever struggled with an infuriating bout of insomnia

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Well in essence the speaker is describing the way her

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mind wanders at bedtime Instead of simply telling us that

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her mind races at night she describes her mind as

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a person going on a little adventure through town At

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one point her mind dances with purple and yellow crocuses

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in its hair And like the well known visions of

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sugar plums from you know it was the night before

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christmas Well this line symbolizes the speaker's fanciful dreams So

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it's be vibrant dreams of the speaker Yeah it's kind

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of cool Alright loser ball here While you have no

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indication of these flowers come from the speakers hardens We

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doubt her mind would be dancing around It all is

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bigger Win a calm soothing sleep so it's reasonable to

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think that a person might contemplate the past at nighttime

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the speaker doesn't seem to be referencing or past here

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at all So it's None of those The answers be

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vibrant dreams at night So you have those injuries Come 00:01:38.261 --> [endTime] on

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