Picture yourself reading a poem and as you continue reading the poem you find yourself laughing,crying,and smiling.What do you think has happened? If you hadn't realized you connected to the poem and shared or expressed your emotions.Now ask yourself how does poetry share and connect us with the emotions and experiences we all have as humans? Katy Perry and Ernesto Santiago are people who can answer that question in their poem Firework and The Bird.This answer can specifically can be commented through experiences and emotions in a short story.
Katy uses the first level of figurative language that compares things.However,the two main types that were being used were simile and allusion.For example,"Just own the night,Like the Fourth of July" was mainly an allusion with a mix of a simile because it or the Fourth of July is compared to a part in history with a person.The following quote is a simile,"Like a lightning bolt Your heart will glow" because Katy,the songwriter uses the word "like" in this stanza.
Katy was not the only person who used some type of figurative language was used in Mr.Santiago's poem called The Bird. Like Katy, Ernesto also used a simile in the poem which reads"A traveler,with its red feathers,Exploded,into force,like An airborne ranger".This man uses personification because in the poem it talked about a human characteristic which can be spotted when he said"Limitless sky,A traveler"."worries what to eat"is imagery because we tend to taste what being consumed.
The reader had not expected the speaker or writer to create deep thinking when publishing what seemed to be an ordinary poem.It is figurative language,in the end,that makes the poem more juicy and less simple. Throughout the poem,Katy along with Ernesto both effectively created these pieces through figurative language,simile,human characteristic,and more.
