Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
Gabriela Mistral was inspired by a woman and her daughter. The woman was scared about her daughter going to a college in another state. The daughter was going to become a very successful bussiness woman. Her mother was scared her daughter wasn't going to pay attention to her anymore. Due to this, she wrote a poem named "Fear". She knew her daughter was going to be successful so she mentioned her as a "princess". Her daughter was going to college over seas so she said, "She would fly far away into the sky." Her mother was basically comparing her to a bird who would leave the nest and start their own life.
The literary devices used in this poem create mood because it makes the story come to life. The poem includes personification so it compares the little girl to a bird flying away. It makes the reader understand how the mother is feeling. The mother feels like her daughter is growing up too fast. With this evidence, the story's mood is fear. The mother is obviously scared of her daughter growing up. Her mother doesn't want her to leave.
I don't want them to turn
my little girl into a swallow.
She would fly far away into the sky Personification
and never fly again to my straw bed,
or she would nest in the eaves
where I could not comb her hair.
I don't want them to turn
my little girl into a swallow.
And even less do I want them
one day to make her queen.
They would put her on a throne Imagery
where I could not go to see her.
And when nighttime came
I could never rock her...
I don't want them to make
my little girl a queen!
I don't want them to make Repetition
my little girl into a princess.
In tiny gold slippers Imagery
how could she play in the meadow?
And when night came, no longer
would she sleep at my side.
I don't want them to make Repetition
my little girl into a princess.
There is personification in stanza 1 when the text states that ,"She would fly far away into the sky". It is personification because her mother is comparing her to a bird who would eventually fly away.
There is repetition in stanza 2 when text states that, "I don't want them to make my little girl into a princess." At the end of that stanza the text says the same exact thing.
There is imagery in stanza 2 when the text states that, "In tiny golden slippers how could she play on the meadow?" There is imagery here because anyone can imagine a little girl with golden slippers in a field.
There is imagery in stanza 3 when the text states that, "They would put her on a throne."
There is imagery here because I can imagine a little girl on a giant throne.