The poem “Spoken Into Creation” by Ethel Song tells a story about her doubts of the positive words that God describe her as. She begins to push away God and starts to idolize a girl who proclaims that her words mean nothing. “Spoken Into Creation” is written for the people who are broken and feel no purpose in their existence. In Song’s poem she uses similes, personification, and tone to show that the words of others shouldn’t affect people faltering away from God.
“Everything God intended me to be. The word he had spoken, ‘Bold, social, bright,’ which consisted of me were gouged out by a single sentence like a lion licking every gazelle bone clean” (Song 11-13). Song symbolizes her own self to a gazelle in which the lion is feeding off of. She uses a simile to express how her self confidence is easily gouged down by the words of others. This gives evidence to the thesis that she is not dependent on her religion but she is broken down by the influential society.
She uses personifications to explain that the influences of society make her feel as if, “gravity could no longer keep me grounded.” (Song 15) She further explains with more personifications, …show more content…
She uses sentences such as, “The power of creation and destruction itself in her tongue”, and “I am words, I am nothing”. Song uses these phrases to set the rough and depressing tone to describe to the reader that the torment she is going through is because of unfavorable words people saying to her. However, towards the end of the poem, Song states, “And he is now speaking new words into me every day. “Joy, confidence, agape*”. These words will never be stolen from me” (Song 28-30). This stanza is the shift of the poem, giving the reader a new sense and a new picture of the author's attitude. The new words she is given from God indicates that she has finally forgotten about the admiration of the girl and has found her closure with God
“Everything God intended me to be. The word he had spoken, ‘Bold, social, bright,’ which consisted of me were gouged out by a single sentence like a lion licking every gazelle bone clean” (Song 11-13). Song symbolizes her own self to a gazelle in which the lion is feeding off of. She uses a simile to express how her self confidence is easily gouged down by the words of others. This gives evidence to the thesis that she is not dependent on her religion but she is broken down by the influential society.
She uses personifications to explain that the influences of society make her feel as if, “gravity could no longer keep me grounded.” (Song 15) She further explains with more personifications, …show more content…
She uses sentences such as, “The power of creation and destruction itself in her tongue”, and “I am words, I am nothing”. Song uses these phrases to set the rough and depressing tone to describe to the reader that the torment she is going through is because of unfavorable words people saying to her. However, towards the end of the poem, Song states, “And he is now speaking new words into me every day. “Joy, confidence, agape*”. These words will never be stolen from me” (Song 28-30). This stanza is the shift of the poem, giving the reader a new sense and a new picture of the author's attitude. The new words she is given from God indicates that she has finally forgotten about the admiration of the girl and has found her closure with God