Love, Life, and Death
I can be light,
I can be light,
but also night.
I can be life
but also death.
I can be a murderer
but also a lifesaver.
I can be a gatherer of my people
but also disperse them.
I am love.
I can be the light in the world
but bring night in tow.
I can be the reason people live
and die.
I can be a murderer of hearts
and save them.
I can be a gatherer people together in my name
and they disperse in a heartbeat
I can't be just one, can I?
Structure Used: Enjambment, End-stopped line, Similar line structure (4,1,4,1)
Techniques Used: Diction (hearts, life, death), Anaphora (I can. I can't), End-Rhyme, Personification
Jacob, you can also say that you used paradoxes. The contradictory yet true statements convey that technique. This is a great poem, and you had a great idea going with the representation of love.
ReplyDeleteI loved your overall idea in this poem. I think writing about how love is good but has its bad moments was very clever. I enjoyed reading it and the poem flowed well.
ReplyDeleteIt was a good poem, i don't really understand it but it rhymes well.
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