I believe every good poem needs to have at least one example of figurative language to help the reader think and imagine the imagery. In Russell’s piece, similes are very much so present. In my opinion, he basically compared black to anything he could possibly think of that was dark. These associations are incredibly dark by comparing his television to death and hell (Lines 4 and 5). With these similes that Russell created, they really explain just how dark this outside atmosphere is due to the tornado; even though he was talking about how dark his television set went. He aimed and successfully did so to enhance his poem, creating very realistic visualizations of the sky for the reader; at least especially for me.
None of Russell’s lines have
None of Russell’s lines have