It is more than a quilt and it is more than a fabric to the cheery speaker. Marilyn Waniek reveals the passion of a young child to pass down a family emblem, in the poem she wrote, “ The Century Quilt.” Waniek diligently uses various literary techniques such as, attitude, shifts, and connotation to develop complex meanings that the speaker gives to the poem. As the poem unfolds the speaker is carefully being characterized by what Waniek writes as her pen meets the blank paper. She creates a mood of dreamy, uplifting memories and aspirations. The attitude of the character is consistent and is immediately revealed in, “ The Century Quilt.” As seen in line 9, “ I remembered how I’d planned to inherit that blanket, how we used to wrap ourselves
