This poem uses many literary devices. An example of assonance is “Into the nothingness of scorn and noise”, this is assonance because of the repeating “O” sound. This poem also contains much figurative language such as similes, metaphor, imagery and personification. An example of a metaphor is “The vast shipwreck of my life’s esteem”. This is a metaphor because it is comparing his life to a shipwreck, which means that everything that he once valued or enjoyed is now a huge mess; a shipwreck. An example of personification is “Into the living sea of waking dreams”. This is personification because a sea cannot dream. “Waking dream” describes the way the speaker experience isolation, and loneliness. The poet did succeed in recounting his experience,
