A small three-tier cake with dripping white icing on a teal plate beneath a suspended raindrop.

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W.H. Auden

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker paints a vivid, unflattering self-portrait: their face looks like a wedding cake that's been abandoned in the rain, all sagging, softened and streaked. It's a self-deprecating metaphor about looking weathered and worn down.

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