Dreams

Author's Note: this is my figurative language essay.

 Figurative Language is a really good way to add voice. Voice is a nice thing because it puts emotion and feeling into what your reading. That way, you can lure the reader in .

 Metaphors are used in this poem two times. The metaphors are, "Life is a broken-winged bird" and "Life is a barren field." Those two phrases are metaphors because the author is writing life as if it was a broken-winged bird or a barren field. The over all tone that you get when you read these two, is depression. You get a sense of sadness and loneliness.  The way you can tell is because there isn't really anything happy or cheerful about a broken bird or an empty field. By the author using those two specific metaphors, you can kind of guess that his life isn't easy and that life isn't treating him as well as he would wish.

By the author using personification in this poem, it shows you that the author can look outside the box. Personification is giving human traits to something that isn't human; like an animal or something like that. So in the phrase "For if dreams die," you get a sense of worry. Like the author is worried about letting his dreams die down, otherwise known as waking up from a good dream that nobody would want to end. Even if it was better than you life is.

In the first stanza, it talks about how if his dreams die, then life would be a broken-winged bird. In other words, he is thinking that when he wakes up, he will be brought back to the miserable reality. I get a sense that he will come back to the world that might misunderstand him. One that he won't be able to accomplish anything in life because there is no sunlight.

In the second stanza, he is talking about that how if his dreams go, then he will come back to this barren field of life frozen in snow. How I take this is that he feels if his dreams end and he wakes up, its back to this empty life that isn't anything but horrible. There is no excitement what so ever. It’s just boring and empty.

Voice is the way to go when your writing because it is an upper level in writing. By using voice, your giving the reader the emotion that the character is feeling. By giving the reader this experience, it can really draw them into the book and not want to put it down.