To This Day Poem Analysis

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In the poem “To This Day” by Shane Koyczan uses the the different colored body to symbolize that he is different from everyone else and therefore they don’t understand him. In the poem it says “pieces between people who can’t understand” (Koyczan 4).
This proves that the different colored body symbolises difference, and when there is difference there is misunderstanding. Therefore, the different colored body symbolises that he is

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