A Girl by Ezra Pound

The tree has entered my hands,
The sap has ascended my arms,
The tree has grown in my breast-
Downward,
The branches grow out of me, like arms.

Tree you are,
Moss you are,
You are violets with wind above them.
A child - so high - you are,
And all this is folly to the world.


How are the figurative language used in the poem?

1)Hyperbole-
NIL

2)Personification-
The tree has entered my hands,
The sap has ascended my arms,
The tree has grown in my breast-
Downward,

3)Similes-
The branches grow out of me, like arms.

4)Metaphor-
Tree you are,
Moss you are,
You are violets with wind above them.

5)Symbolism-
The tree, the sap.

Tell us why you like this poem in no less than 100 words.

This poem has a lot of variety of figurative language which makes the reader able to visualise or maybe have more feelings towards what the author is going to say. This poem tells us how the author is indirectly saying that an adult, or maybe a teenage, definitely not a child is not as mature as his age suggests. He uses that trees have grown, its sap volume increase, but over the years, the person still have not grown, as childy as a kid. I like this poem because of the way it express its feelings, and making a comparison between the trees and the person.

The End