# Face explained — Cane

> Chapter companion for Cane by Jean Toomer.

## What happens

A brief, poetic portrait of a woman's face, emphasizing its aged, sorrowful features and the inevitability of death.

## Key lines

> Face Hair⁠— silver-gray, like streams of stars, Brows⁠— recurved canoes quivered by the ripples blown by pain, Her eyes⁠— mist of tears condensing on the flesh below And her channeled muscles are cluster grapes of sorrow purple in the evening sun nearly ripe for worms.

Her hair is silver-gray, her brows are curved like canoes trembling from pain, her eyes are teary, and her wrinkled muscles are like dark grapes of sorrow, almost ready for death.

_The passage uses vivid natural imagery to describe an elderly woman's face, conveying deep sorrow and mortality._

## Links

- HTML: https://www.betterreads.online/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-i-face
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