Metaphors In John Steinbeck's 'Your Eyes Are Burned'

The author uses metaphor “your eyes are spikes” to says how the blind man’s eyes are like spikes to be scornful saying that when the someone looks into his eyes it is like a death stare

The tree represents his life and the leaves represent the events that “enlighten” his life

Alliteration: the author uses alliteration to show how the speaker is not happy with beauty, he finds the war at peace with himself and to know and “see what he must leave” fills him with grief, it actually makes his sad and makes his greive of what he must leave behind the beauty of the war.

The author uses the alliteration to show how the speaker is sad and that he is grieving over the fact that he will leave his life unfinished because he will not kill in the