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In Wendy Wright's poem entitled, "Tara," the speaker (poet?) is
describing a child who dies young. The memories this mother has of her daughter are caught in the
beautiful, delicate and awe-inspiring imagery that the author uses to describe the
child.

Imagery is the use of any literary devices that create a
picture in the reader's mind.

First the poet (speaker) compares the
little girl to a rose, small, beautiful, and perfect: this is the only rose that will bloom from
this bush, captured by an early frost (death) which freezes the image of the child in time, and
in memory.

Personification is a literary device whereby human
characteristics are given to non-human things.

Nature is personified
here in:

the
rosebud...kissed by the first frost
that selfishly captured her only
bloom

(Personification is specifically
seen in the verb "kissed" and the adverb "selfishly.")

The sense of
a frozen instant is present in this first section like that of a photograph which captures a
moment in time, and in that picture, time stops moving forward, though life
does not.  This is also seen in the next section.

The second section
also uses imagery from nature to describe Tara:

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I’ve often thought of her as
a hummingbird
suspended in flight
miniature but magnificent...
like a puff of wind, she’ll
be gone.

The hummingbird, if you're
quick enough to know what you're seeing and sit very still trying to memorize this amazing
creature, thrusts one of nature's marvels before our eyes; we blink and find nature's "supersonic
pilot" gone. This depiction imparts the amount of time the speaker had with Tara: all too
quickly, she was no longer there.

In the final section of the poem,
the author (perhaps appropriately in that she is discussing life in terms of this amazing child)
uses the metaphor of those last days in the playing of a game. However, where games often are
accompanied by laughter and jubilation, the "winner" of this game is much
darker.

Eight years
old, soon to be a memory
fighting against a fearless force
where, like a game
strategically played,
death became the
victor.

Words here that support the
image of a game are: strategically, played and victor.

The mother
recalls her early days, nursing her firstborn child who was "fragile and helpless," but these
words seem to still apply eight years later. The child fights against a "fearless force"
(illness, death) that is much stronger than she.

Images of nature
abound in this poem, seemingly to draw the reader's eye to the wondrous beauty of the child who
dies too soon. These images include words and phrases as follows: rosebud, delicate petals of
cream, perfect symmetry, frost, bloom, hummingbird, and puff of
wind.

The clause: "miniature but magnificent / tiny wings flapping
feverishly" gives a sense of living life quickly, trying to do as much as possible, in a short
time; and "feverishly," while meaning "quickly" may also refer to the illness that afflicts the
child.

Though the sadness of the child's death is evident, the
beauty captured in nature's images, bequeath to the reader the lovely essence of Tara, as seen by
her mother; and in this, the child lives on.