Ode to Language

I started laughing when I found this little gem.  I had a lot of fun writing it.  It was an assignment when I took the writing class at the college. Here is the outline we had to use for our poem.

Figurative Language

1. (apostrophe)-address something nonhuman

2. (personification)-personify something

3. (synesthesia)-use an image missing sensory perception

4. (hyperbole)-exaggerate

5. (underestimate/litotes) use understatement/deny the opposite

6. (metonymy/synecdoche)-refer to something by using something related/use a part of a whole

7. (paradox/oxymoron) write a compressed contradiction

8. (allusion)-allude to something

9. (metaphor) use a metaphor

10. (simile)-extend the metaphor, using simile

11. (implied metaphor /analogy)-extend the metaphor further, using implied metaphor, or anology

Enjoy!!

Language

Language, how I treasure and love thee

Wrap thy words around me in a sweet embrace

Thy warm fragrant tones fill mine ears

Heaven’s music pales in comparison

I cannot speak without thee, a fluid motion not a babbling brook

The theatre gathers men and woman,

 Delivering thy script to the crowds

 My mind filled with words I cannot see, it’s deafening silence.

An atomic explosion in mine head

  Thy oxymorons, thy metonymies were endless winds

Thy similes, Thy paradoxes like whispers in a breeze

Thy analogies, Thy litotes forests of imagination