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The first way Hogan described the bees in lines 14-19 was with death, “Many of the holes still contain the gold husks of dead bees, their faces dry and gone, their flat eyes gazing out from death’s land toward the other uninhabited half of the hill…” But then towards the end her tone lightens and it seems she starts to relate to the community of bees, “... watching the small bees fly in and out around the hill… I felt right in the world. I belonged there. I thought of my own dwelling places, those real and those imagined.” I believe the bees represent nostalgia and a sense of belonging.
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