Poem Title: Make Up
Author: Nikki Giovanni
Publisher: William Morrow
Date Published: 2003
ISBN: 9780060541330
About the poem:
I think Nikki Giovanni's poem Make Up is about how we use make up both literally and figuratively throughout our lives to protect ourselves and cover up imperfections. She uses the term "make up" as we use it on our faces to cover up and "make up" in the sense of making stories up to help cope with situations in our lives.
Last stanza from the poem Make Up
we make up excuses
to say i’m sorry that
forgive me because
and after all didn’t i tell you
why
and i make up with you
because you aren’t strong
enough to reach out
to say
come home I need you
Poem Review
I love this poem. When I was younger I received this poetry book as a gift and spent hours going through selecting poems by Nikki Giovanni that I loved and compiled them into some type of poetry collection. I wanted to use this poem and share it because she writes her poems for children and even adults. This poem is one that can have multiple interpretations which is the beauty of poetry. I definitely reccomend this poem for children, especially older children in elementary and middle school. I give this poem a 5 out of 5 owls.
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