Sunday, March 27, 2011

March 22nd - Where my literary devices at?

Well it is becoming increasingly difficult to find things to write about every day.  Today I decided to move away from analyzing and look at the poem to find some literary devices.  I have read online that Yusef loves using similes and sometimes criticized for over using them.  In this poem I picked out only three similes in the latter half of the poem.  The first appears in stanza six, "The backyard trees breathed like a man running from himself."  This line is also personification.  The next two appear in the final stanza, "Like a gambler's visor" and "The dresser mirror like a moon Held prisoner in the house."

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