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Dream Deferred
1. The five similes in the poem are the things we can expect. For instance, sweetness, dryness, and stink are not that surprising. In fact the author seems to draw readers’ attention with these similes. But with the metaphor at the end, which says “Or does it explode”, the author changes the direction and makes readers to think and figure out where did it come from. The metaphor at the end gives meaning to the poem while making the readers to comprehend it.

Song of the Powers
4. on the last line of the final stanza says, “They all end alone as you will, you will”. The term, ‘You’, refers to human being in general and it says all the power in the world will not last forever but will end up bleak and lonely. The author believes every physical power will somehow get lost. He uses metaphors of birds and scissors to illustrate it.