📚ap english literature review

Shaving

Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 examWritten by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025

Definition

A poem by Richard Blanco that uses the act of shaving as a metaphor to explore themes of time, mortality, memory, and the passage of life.

AP course connection

Topic 5.4: 5.4 Identifying and interpreting extended metaphors

Unit 5

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