To This Day is a poem by Shane Koyczan about bullying and its’ effects on the beaten down in the long run. Its’ intention is to get the audience thinking about how tragic the suffering of so many children is and to motivate the audience to love themselves, despite what others say through the use of similes, metaphors, and Pathos. Koyczan uses many literary devices to further provoke emotion in the audience. One of the literary devices Koyczan uses is metaphors. An example of this is seen where he writes, “So broken heart strings bled the blues as we tried to empty ourselves so we would feel nothing”. This amplifies the pain of the bullied, telling us exactly how painful is to feel unloved and unwanted. Another literary device seen throughout
