Poetry post 3

The theme of Fruit Cocktail in Light Syrup is blandness, normality and hiding untruths. However, the interesting part of this poem lies in the opposite of what the words of it say. Fruit cocktail looks extremely bland, it is mostly white with a very similar texture throughout. Fruit cocktail is also extremely sweet and appetizing, especially to children. This may seem like somewhat of a stretch, but what I saw in the fruit cocktail was something seemingly bland. Something extraordinarily normal, but when you taste it, you are greeted to a symphony of flavor. What the poem could be saying between the lines is that something may seem incredibly bland or someone could seem detestably normal, but in fact be something else entirely once you get a taste.