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The Poem Interment
The poem Interment is a poem about the injustice that was the interment of the Japanese Americans during WW2. This poem use very good metaphors to explain how they were treated. The author use the idea of the people being treated like cattle as they forced into the camps and these metaphors helped to tell what the theme of the this poem is. The metaphors use this harsh way to describe the treatment of the people as without is the theme would not have the impact it does at the end on the reader. The theme is that even in the worse moments beauty can still be found. This is revealed in the lines “like stolid cattle- dewdrops,impaled and golden”. This shows even though the people are in camps and are treated like cattle there is still hope and beauty to be found. In conclusion,without the strong metaphors that this poem the theme would not be as meaningful as it is.

Poetry Analysis 2 - Hope is a Thing with Feathers The poem Hope Is a Thing With Feathers is very unique in the way that it is written. The way that is written is unique is that while the poem contains many metaphors about Hope, but the entire poem itself is a metaphor for hope. Understanding and reading the poem as a metaphor is key to truly understanding what the theme of this poem is. After looking
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This is told by how the child is innocent enough and feels sorrowful for the snowman that is forced to be out in the cold for his entire life. While the snowman doesn’t mind being out in the cold but instead steads of tear of sympathy for the child that is unable to understand that snowman would rather be outside and is crying because he believes the snowman is suffering. In conclusion the theme of this poem has showed me that is difficult to judges others without knowing them, and that it is important to get to know someone before judging

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