What would our world be without everything being related in a way? It would be a lot different than it is today. In “Human Family” by Maya Angelou and “Remember” by Joy Harjo, both poets use personification, hyperboles, and repetition, to show that everything is related in some way.
Personification is one major poetic device both poets used in their poems. In “Human Family”, by Maya Angelou, she exhibits that “The variety of our skin tones/can confuse, bemuse, delight” (Angelou 9-10). When she expressed that, she was referring to how every skin tone is different, but all in all every person in the world serves as a component of one large family. In “Remember,” Harjo wrote “Remember the wind. Remember her voice. She knows the/origin of this universe” …show more content…
People may act or look the same, but no person is exactly like the last. “Remember you are all people and all people/are you” (Harjo 19-20) shows how we are all the same. It does not matter what you look like or how smart you are, we are all equal.
Another literary device both the authors use is repetition. Maya Angelou repeats the phrase “We are more alike, my friends,/than we are unalike” (Angelou 41-42) multiple times in “Human Family.” She does this to remind us that we are all like and not very different. In the end, we are all the same, just in different shapes and sizes. Throughout the “Remember,” Harjo keeps repeating the word “Remember” (Harjo 1). The poet does this to tell you to remember who you are and what makes you who you are. We are all very much the same, but there are those little things that make us all unique that set us apart.
In the end, the world is better of when everything is related in some way. Whether you are short or tall or fat or thin, we are all much alike and that is the way it should
Personification is one major poetic device both poets used in their poems. In “Human Family”, by Maya Angelou, she exhibits that “The variety of our skin tones/can confuse, bemuse, delight” (Angelou 9-10). When she expressed that, she was referring to how every skin tone is different, but all in all every person in the world serves as a component of one large family. In “Remember,” Harjo wrote “Remember the wind. Remember her voice. She knows the/origin of this universe” …show more content…
People may act or look the same, but no person is exactly like the last. “Remember you are all people and all people/are you” (Harjo 19-20) shows how we are all the same. It does not matter what you look like or how smart you are, we are all equal.
Another literary device both the authors use is repetition. Maya Angelou repeats the phrase “We are more alike, my friends,/than we are unalike” (Angelou 41-42) multiple times in “Human Family.” She does this to remind us that we are all like and not very different. In the end, we are all the same, just in different shapes and sizes. Throughout the “Remember,” Harjo keeps repeating the word “Remember” (Harjo 1). The poet does this to tell you to remember who you are and what makes you who you are. We are all very much the same, but there are those little things that make us all unique that set us apart.
In the end, the world is better of when everything is related in some way. Whether you are short or tall or fat or thin, we are all much alike and that is the way it should