I noticed that there were many similes in the poem to help describe emotions and …show more content…
It was not consistent and there was no pattern but there were parts of the poem. For example "Hearts are said to pound: this is to be expected, the heart's regular struggle against being drowned." The words pound and drowned rhyme together. A different example would be at the very end of the poem when it says "Heart, be still, and it will." The words still and will rhyme. I think that rhyming can make the poem more interesting. I find that rhyming can also make certain parts of the poem stand out and be more memorable to the reader.
I made a connection with the poem to the main character of an old film, his name is the Grinch. The movie starts off with him living alone on top of a mountain. He does not care for others, in fact, he hates everyone with a passion. He also does not trust anyone but himself. In his "theme song" the lyrics state that his heart is "an empty hole", "full of unwashed socks" and "a dead tomato splotched with mouldy purple spots". In both the poem and the movie they use the heart to explain how they are undependable, confused (in the poem), and closed