To Determine Poetic Meaning

Tone

Poetic Language

Figurative language

Form of poem

Type of poem

Informal, fear, denial, sadness

(11) "Golden"

Denotation- made or consisting of gold

Connotation- prized

No simile

Personification- (13) "And when the night came, no longer"

Metaphor- (1,2,7,8) "I don't want them to turn my little girl into a swallow"

(3,4) "she would fly far away into the sky/And never fly again into my straw bed"

Lyric

Free verse