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From the poor choices that lead the speaker to become a fool, the speaker struggles with sorrow and regrets their decisions when their life is almost over. The speaker learned a lesson about life, to cherish it. Christina Rossetti causes the reader to deliberate if they regretted the things they had missed out during their personal experiences. She advises us to not miss out the opportunities, but to value our lives.

The poem is a good example of the use of simple metaphors that help create Rossetti's attitude in "A Daughter of Eve". Summer represented happiness and knowledge as winter signified loneliness and despair. For spring, it meant a new beginning. The metaphors that are used help the readers to grasp the feeling of the poem. The metaphors help to notice the tone from her poetic writing; it identified shame, loneliness and depression. All the negative symptoms come from winter and not of hint of warmth in the speaker's life. This is how you know the speaker regrets what they had done.

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