The Exhibit

How does Lisel Mueller use imagery in The Exhibit?

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The poem's closing imagery, which focuses on the uncle's eyes, which the speaker calls "dry wells that fill so easily now," likens the uncle to a child, and children are, of course, the ultimate symbols of innocence and purity.

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The Exhibit