Lady in Purple
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf
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Analysis
Both of Lady in Purple’s poems are about men. Her first one discusses a time when she and three of her best friends all wanted the same man, but he ended up hurting them all and they comforted each other like sisters, not letting this man tear them apart. Then she talks
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