The poem “My Ex-Husband by Gabriel Spera talks about feelings of a girl that are about her Ex-Husband.
A few lines down Gabriel Spara wrights,
“Whispering the sweetest things, like “Your lips
Are like plump rubies, eyes like diamond chips,”
Spera states a paradox when she stated “Your lips Are like plump rubies” , lips cannot be soft as skin and hard as a rubies, what she ment was the lips were as soft as the color of some rubies. As she says that line, it helps the reader see a more personal vision than saying just the word “lips”.
When Spera stated “eyes like diamond chips”, this line can mean that his eyes were literally like hard diamonds, but Spera wanted to perceive that his eyes were as sparkly as a diamond is in the sun, with no imperfections, to show the reader a more vivid example of an eye with no imperfections, rather than just saying his eye was clear.
Acknowledging your attention to vivid imagery, I agree that these are important connotations and reflect repeating tensions throughout the poem.
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