LITERARY
E l e m e n t s
Paola Garcia 8A #8
L e s s o n
My Poem
Explanation
This poem has meaning behind the text and you need to infer a lot. It also has many literary devices such as:
Metaphor: "Two Starry Lovers" "She fought implacable tides" "The star gaze glowed in his eyes" This are metaphors because they associate meanings or identities of other objects. The lovers are with the identity of stars, she did not literally fight tides but refers that she went through a lot to be with his love one, and of course its not literal that the star's glow were in his eyes but compared the glow with how his eyes seemed.
Personification: "The moon was hiding in her smile" "The moon's smile shattered into tears" "and the moon understood with a smile" The moon of course cannot hide in a smile, it can't cry and shatter into tears and can't understand nor smile. This are all human charactersitics given to the object, in this case the moon.
Simile: "And we were like the stars" compares the persons with the stars and uses the word "like".
Foreshadowing: The first two verses is the story the girl (author) would live with the man, we were given the story before they even met. A hint of what will happen in the story of the poem.
And we were like the stars,
when we met that night.
The summer breeze blew so many times,
our love as red as Mars.
And in that stormy night
The star gaze’s glow disappeared
The moon’s smile shattered into tears
Had reality became her fears.
To him I had to say goodbye,
that afternoon of late July.
He told me everything will be alright
Yet he left, but not without a fight.
Nothing was fine,
he was no longer mine.
Up in the sky
the stars started to glow so bright,
and the moon understood with a smile.
Stargazing the Moon
Two starry lovers,
they met that night.
Couldn’t be away from each other,
they didn’t leave without a fight.
He traveled long miles,
she fought implacable tides.
Oh, was the moon hiding in her smile,
and the star gaze glowed in his eyes.
And so was their love,
a dream I had dreamed.
And so did I wished,
I could find someone like him.
For all I could tell,
I would have never guessed,
the man who I bumped that day,
would I marry the next May.
