A Stressful Story

Author's Note~ This is my figurative language piece on the poem Release. I want to score a 9 or higher on this piece.

The stress in life and how you get rid of it.  In the poem Release, by Mark R Slaughter, the whole poem revolves around a man’s stressful life.  What the poem tells you to do is release all of your problems and stress.  The author realizes that stress is an everyday encounter between people and that the acceptance and releasing of it is the most important.

During the poem the poet used many onomatopoeias to give the reader a different view and perspective of the poem.  Words such as “thunder, crack, and pop” were used during the poem.  As the reader read the poem these sound words it grabbed the reader in and showed more suspense during the poem.

“Arms like his would suit me well -I'd bust the walls; escape this hell”.  This line could be a couple things, a simile as well as a hyperbole.  When the simile was used it affected the reader as if he was jealous of somebody.  Then when the hyperbole was used it clearly pulled the simile and the hyperbole together.  It affected the readers perspective because the word “hell” could be used as an exaggeration and he would need to be really strong to break out.

As figurative language is used in the piece it changes the tone the reader has.  I would say that it adds a more dramatic tone towards the poem.  The poet was probably trying to do the same thing by inserting figurative language to make the reader think more and add more suspense into the piece.  Also as figurative language is used in the piece the main character had many different traits and you could figure that out by analyzing figurative language.

In the poem the poet used many examples of figurative language and it was obvious that it affected the piece as well as the final lesson the reader got out of it.  When someone reads a poem they always know that when a poem has figurative language the poem becomes more interesting and a higher quality piece.  During the poem the poet uses figurative language to tell the reader about overcoming stress and the hardships in life.