Naomi Shihab Nye Literary Devices

Naomi Shihab Nye, weaves many different types of elements into her poem Kindness. The main literary devices used in the poems are personification, simile and imagery. The use of all of these techniques contributes to the meaning of the poem in both poems. It allows the reader to better understand the narrative of the poem and allows the reader to connect to the characters as well as the theme. I use personification as a way to describe how the fairies are feeling and their type of season. For example, I said, “While winter cries in the night”(10). This shows that winter watches how summer is happy and singing while winter wishes they were. The differences between the seasons draw them to each other, making one sad that they don’t have the similarities they have that they view …show more content…

In the poem, Kindness it says “Kindness that ties your shoes” this explains how you have to experience sorrow and death before having a complete understanding of kindness. The difference between personification in the poems, Understanding the Other Side and Kindness, is that my poem elaborates on how the winter season feels because they are not who they want to be due to them yet experiencing and giving kindness to others. Nye’s poem talks about what happens after one suffers before feeling the kindness. One poem is before the other experiences being kind, while the other is after experiencing the sorrow before kindness. Similie is used in both poems to compare two things. In the original poem it is used to compare the future to salt in a weakened broth. It says exactly, “Feel the future dissolve in a moment, like salt in a weakened broth”. The emulated poem states, “Seasons are the reasons as to why we are not the same,” Both these poems use simile to emphasise the comparisons. The original poem compares future dissolving in a moment to salt in a