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Analyzing a Poem

ENGL 1020-006ONL

Marie Vega

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Oct 18th, 2022.

A cure for them (poem)

Analyze the poem by answering the following questions:

1.What is the title of the poem? Who is the author?

The title of the poem is “A cure for Them” by Alina Siegfried AKA Ali Jacs

2.Is the title of the poem literal or symbolic? Explain its meaning.
The title of the poem is symbolic, it means those others. Those that we blame for
all our social and environment problems, them, not us, them.

3.Write your own title for this poem.

I would call it “Every man and woman are an island.

4.What is the theme of the poem? Is the theme still relevant? Explain.
The theme of the poem is about them and us. The problem of blaming others for
everything that happens in today’s world when is our fault. But they are us. The
rivalry between human beings is ending humanity. We have to be better than this
because we are all of them. The topic is increasingly relevant because we are
destroying each other for the monetary gain of a few. We are finishing the
environment and we have no other planet to live in. we kill ourselves in wars that
are not ours, its time to change.

5.What is the tone of the poem?

The tone of the poem is sarcastic at first and hopeful at the end.
6.Identify at least four (4) figures of speech in the poem.
For example: The heart is like a pump (simile).
 Step away from the militancy you have held so close as a lover. (simile)
 It’s getting hotter and hotter to breathe. (hyperbole)
 Offer up our gifts and contribution with open hearts embracing grace and
humility. (metaphor)
 While indignant ears grow deaf to anything that does not reinforce our
world of view. (personification)

7. What emotions does the poem evoke?

This poem evokes different emotions, from rage for letting things to get to such a
point among us humans, to hope that we can make some change if we join. This
goes for politics, climate change, women’s rights and everything that needs to be
done.

Reference:

Edmund Hillary fellowship. (producer). (2019, April 16). A cure for them (poem).

[video]. YouTube.
Part 2

Write a poem.

Time

You govern my every day.

There is nothing I can do

to change it or stop it.

It's inevitable to change your course.

Sometimes I want to cherish or hold you.

But in reality, most of the time I lose you.

It is impossible to make you any faster or slower.

Even though sometimes I pretend to save you for later.

You transport me to my past.

I feel how you travel through my thoughts

like a shooting star that comes and goes.

You leave physical and spiritual marks

which help us mature every day.

And without any doubt you always

bring with your truth.

Figurative language in my poem:

1.Metaphors:

a. In the first stanza said that no matter what you do, the time takes its course and governs us.

b .In the second stanza said I would like to keep time but you lose it.
2.Simile:

a. In the third stanza said: "I feel how you travel through my thoughts like a shooting star that comes
and goes" (In this sentence also has an alliteration “through my thoughts".

3.Imagery visuals:

a. Shooting star is an imagery visual in the sentence: "I feel how you travel through my thoughts like a
shooting star that comes and goes"

b. Marks is an imagery visual in the sentence: "You leave physical and spiritual marks"