Ode To You Figurative Language

The poem, "Ode To You," by Carl Sinclair is about someone, which can be inferred is a woman, who has been hurt by someone else. She is missing having this person in her life, reminiscing on their past and wishing that they will be together again. Subsequently, the speaker of this ode is the woman who the poem is about; so, it is in first person. Moreover, in this ode, there are two main conflicts occurring. The first one is an internal conflict that the narrator is going through with herself, where she is hoping for something that she has no control over to happen. She is letting this conflict tear her apart and cause her much pain. Secondly, the other conflict in the poem is man versus man, between the narrator and the person who has caused her the pain. To conclude, the theme of "Ode To You" is don’t give up on love because the narrator still wants love to happen again with this person she is talking about, even though she knows that it might not happen ever again.
In the first stanza of "Ode To You," the author describes all the events that occurred in the time the narrator and this other person were together. Everyday she dreams about these moments, thinking that they are happening again. Then, …show more content…
Not all poems have figurative, but it creates a more interesting piece of writing to read. In "Ode To You," there is not much figurative language; but, Sinclair, the author, does use metaphors throughout the poem. He doesn’t have the use of similes, personification, puns, hyperbole, understatement, irony or paradox anywhere in the poem. To illustrate, Sinclair writes, "I wither up inside as all my hopes disappear,/And the burn in my heart really starts to sear"(Sinclair lines 13-14). This metaphor is comparing the narrator's hope to something burning up, like it is just all going away. Similarly, this metaphor fits the tone because it is something that could be happy, turned into something