Figurative Language In Ocd By Neil Hilborn

The poem “OCD” is written and performed by Neil Hilborn. The theme of this poem is love, where he emphasizes on his mental illness. Love provides many things in a relationship such as security, dependency and how it stays pure if the person truly cares about his or her partner. The poem talks about security which explains why his girlfriend felt secured whenever she was with him. There are many literary devices in this poem such as, repetition, symbolism, tone, foreshadowing, and hyperbole. For example, reputation is used when he says “Did I locked the doors? Yes”. His Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder helps him recognize how much he loved his girlfriend after she broke up with him. In the poem he explains at the end why his girlfriend left him, …show more content…
Tone is another figurative language that Neil Hilborn uses in his poem, “I leave the door unlocked”. While saying this he portrays how sad and vulnerable he is. Security explains that many little things in the world like his OCD is putting a strain in his relationship. Another figurative language that I found in the poem was symbolism, “How can it be a mistake that I don’t have to wash my hands after I touch her”. He is saying that his love for her is as pure as it can be, whereas he doesn’t have to do something which he would normally do if he was touching something unclean. While he speaks he speaks with a passion for her that it magnifies the love he has for her. Another example would be, “Who else is kissing her”. He is saying that his love for her is a necessity for him to live. He also uses hyperbole is used in the poem “She loved that it took me forever to walk home”. This is being exaggerate greatly because it can’t take you forever to walk to your house. He uses the foreshadowing of “blows out candles” to reveal to the audience a preview of the ending, it foreshadows the end of his relationship. Neil Hilborn speaks to an audience which doesn’t understand the struggles of having obsessive compulsive