Free at Last? (revised)

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Free at Last?

Free at last!

We won the war,

Got the rights

Freedom is like a

big sweet birthday cake

But something is missing

on the birthday cake,

Something BIG.

.

.
Free at last.

But what does it mean to be free?

My clothes are rough and wrinkled,

turned into a brownish rag

My back it's a mud covered pig pen,

sweats tickling down the back

.

.
Free at last?

No family,

No friends,

No food,

No friendly faces,

No fence around my house

Is this really freedom?

.

.

Reflection: Reflection: This poem is about slaves who just got their freedom but doesn't feel like it's a freedom. They don't get attentions from the Americans. This whole poem is basically a narrative since it tells about slaves who just won the civil won and got their freedom. Even though this poem is a narrative, I have similes, metaphors, symbolism and imagery in it. I tried to put in all types of poems because I didn't know which I should choose. In the first stanza, it contains a simile and symbol. 'Freedom is like a birthday cake'. This is a simile representing that freedom is really sweet and big. It's a simile since it uses like or as to compare the cake and the freedom. 'But something is missing on the birthday cake'. The cake is representing freedom and something is missing on it. This is a symbolism because the cake symbolizes freedom. In the second stanza, there is imagery and a metaphor. The stanza is showing the slave's appearance: their clothes and their sweaty back. 'My back it's a mud covered pig pen'. This is a metaphor because it compares the slave's back and the muddy pig pen. It means that the slave's back is really dirty. The last stanza, I liked the best. It had alliteration. Alliteration is the repetition of the first letter of the first word. Family, friends, food, fence, friendly faces and freedom all has a F for their first letter. This poem was pretty easy to write about and I think I did a good job of improving my poem using the advice from Ms.Sackstein.
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Simile is a poem that contains a comparison between two objects using the words like or as. Metaphor is a poem that contains the comparison between two objects with out using the word like or as. Symbolism is a poem that contains an object and it symbolizes something. Imagery is a poem that contains descriptions which gives the readers vivid images.