Ever since I was young, I have loved reading poems. Poetry has always been my favorite type of literature. Trying to discover what each symbol represents and to understand what the poet intends in each line intrigues me as though it were a game. The poem I chose for this project is called, “Every Heart’s A Hurricane.” The poem was written by Erin Hanson, whose vivid descriptions and beautiful choice in language make this poem one of my personal favorites. In this poem, Hanson expresses the workings of the human heart, mind, and soul as beautiful parts of nature through metaphor and bold imagery. The things I love most about this poem are its imagery and connections to nature. The first line of this poem reads, “Every heart’s a hurricane.”
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Hanson feels that the heart is a dynamic organ with somewhat destructive desires, but a calm center. In the center of a hurricane, there is no storm. Everything is quiet and calm. Perhaps this quiet could symbolize the heart’s inner peace, even as it’s surrounded by swirling emotion and destruction. Even amongst all of the distraction, at its core the heart knows what it wants and is peaceful. When Hanson writes in the second line, “Each soul a starlit sea,” she is again writing a metaphor with imagery pertaining to nature. The human soul is beautiful and calm, much like a starlit sea would be. It is bright. The soul is more at peace than the hurricane of the heart, and more grounded than the meteor of the mind. “Every mind’s a meteor unbound by gravity” are the next two lines, providing the audience yet another nature-related metaphor. The mind is absolutely free and unbound. The mind goes anywhere it pleases, largey unaffected by any outside force or boundary. A meteor unbound by gravity can do the same. Sometimes, meteors burst into flame as they enter the atmosphere, and fire is a symbol of passion. The mind is absolutely ablaze with passion and …show more content…
The first rhyming of the poem occurs in the words “sea” and “gravity.” All throughout the poem, every other line ends in rhyming words. The first stanza provides a connection between the inner workings of humans and nature, while the second stanza presents a conflict, possibly more than one, and a solution. The first conflict is found where the poem reads, “Yet everyone’s told no; bite back all your thunder and don’t let the wild things show.” This presents a conflict between man and society. People are told not to let their true selves shine through, even though the first stanza made their human attributes sound so wonderful. This irony is more pronounced in the last two lines, “Every life too short for loathing any storms beneath your skin.” If humanity’s hurricane hearts and meteor minds and starlit sea souls are so wonderful, why are they loathed? Hanson resolves this irony by advising the audience to love themselves. This solution provides a second subliminal conflict, between man and self. There is a lesson to be learned here: life is far too short to spend time hating oneself. Hanson encourages self acceptance. She wrote this poem with a thoughtful tone to really get her point across in the best way possible. The end of the poem comes full circle in an epanalepsis, which is a repeating word or phrase separated by intervening words or phrases. The repeated phrase is
Hanson feels that the heart is a dynamic organ with somewhat destructive desires, but a calm center. In the center of a hurricane, there is no storm. Everything is quiet and calm. Perhaps this quiet could symbolize the heart’s inner peace, even as it’s surrounded by swirling emotion and destruction. Even amongst all of the distraction, at its core the heart knows what it wants and is peaceful. When Hanson writes in the second line, “Each soul a starlit sea,” she is again writing a metaphor with imagery pertaining to nature. The human soul is beautiful and calm, much like a starlit sea would be. It is bright. The soul is more at peace than the hurricane of the heart, and more grounded than the meteor of the mind. “Every mind’s a meteor unbound by gravity” are the next two lines, providing the audience yet another nature-related metaphor. The mind is absolutely free and unbound. The mind goes anywhere it pleases, largey unaffected by any outside force or boundary. A meteor unbound by gravity can do the same. Sometimes, meteors burst into flame as they enter the atmosphere, and fire is a symbol of passion. The mind is absolutely ablaze with passion and …show more content…
The first rhyming of the poem occurs in the words “sea” and “gravity.” All throughout the poem, every other line ends in rhyming words. The first stanza provides a connection between the inner workings of humans and nature, while the second stanza presents a conflict, possibly more than one, and a solution. The first conflict is found where the poem reads, “Yet everyone’s told no; bite back all your thunder and don’t let the wild things show.” This presents a conflict between man and society. People are told not to let their true selves shine through, even though the first stanza made their human attributes sound so wonderful. This irony is more pronounced in the last two lines, “Every life too short for loathing any storms beneath your skin.” If humanity’s hurricane hearts and meteor minds and starlit sea souls are so wonderful, why are they loathed? Hanson resolves this irony by advising the audience to love themselves. This solution provides a second subliminal conflict, between man and self. There is a lesson to be learned here: life is far too short to spend time hating oneself. Hanson encourages self acceptance. She wrote this poem with a thoughtful tone to really get her point across in the best way possible. The end of the poem comes full circle in an epanalepsis, which is a repeating word or phrase separated by intervening words or phrases. The repeated phrase is