It is the start of winter glittering on her cheek, the first frost of having been hurt.
Line Numbers 9,10, and 12: The phrase “first frost” is used very often because the author wants to put emphasis on the season and its relation to feeling extreme sadness. When you feel sad, often you can feel a sting in your heart and in the winter the first frost normally stings the most.
She has to beat her way back alone
Line Number 7: This line is also imagery because the author wants you to be able to picture a crying, heartbroken girl struggling to walk down an icy road because she was so overcome by sadness and grief.
Fingers like ice. Glass beads in her ears.
Line Number 6: The author said that she had “fingers like ice” and this is a simile because it is using like or as.
A girl is freezing in a telephone booth, huddled in her flimsy coat, her face stained by tears and smeared with lipstick.
These first four lines are imagery because they paint a clear picture in your head of what is happening. This gives you the setting of the poem and it introduces you to the character and their feelings of sadness.