Analysis Of The Poem From The Diary Of An Almost-Four-Year-Old
Inez Lee
Corbin Lockmiller
English 1302
14 July, 2013
Poetic Devices Paper “From the Diary of An Almost-Four-Year-Old”
In life we experience many things. Most of the things we experience we experience them as children. We see things for the first time that we have obviously never seen before. We see things that bring us joy, sadness, anger, and excitement, a variety of emotions. We might see things that should not be seen, things that we cannot take back and we might also see good things. As children it is a given that we shall see with two eyes. Imagine living in this world with one eye or even worse being blind. How would you feel only being able to see with one eye or not being able to see at all, in this poem “From the Diary of an Almost-Four-Year-Old” this little girl experiences just that. …show more content…
The speaker is concerned of what she might see. The speaker is asking herself if she will see half of everything. We know the speaker gets shot by a soldier because she says, “I did not see the bullet but felts its pain exploding in my head. His image did not vanish, the soldier with a big gun, unsteady hands, and a look in his eyes I could not understand” (7-15, ‘Ashrawi). The speaker also talks about how she can see the soldier so clearly with her eyes closed that we might have a pair of eyes in our head. The speaker says, “if I can see him so clearly with my eyes closed, it could be that inside our heads we each have one spare set of eyes to make up for the ones we lose” (16-21, ‘Ashrawi). The speaker also states her birthday is coming up and on her birthday she will get a glass eye. She says things might look weird with the glass eye because when she looked through marbles things looked different, round and fat. The speaker ends the poem saying a little baby also lost her eye and wonders if the soldier shot her
Corbin Lockmiller
English 1302
14 July, 2013
Poetic Devices Paper “From the Diary of An Almost-Four-Year-Old”
In life we experience many things. Most of the things we experience we experience them as children. We see things for the first time that we have obviously never seen before. We see things that bring us joy, sadness, anger, and excitement, a variety of emotions. We might see things that should not be seen, things that we cannot take back and we might also see good things. As children it is a given that we shall see with two eyes. Imagine living in this world with one eye or even worse being blind. How would you feel only being able to see with one eye or not being able to see at all, in this poem “From the Diary of an Almost-Four-Year-Old” this little girl experiences just that. …show more content…
The speaker is concerned of what she might see. The speaker is asking herself if she will see half of everything. We know the speaker gets shot by a soldier because she says, “I did not see the bullet but felts its pain exploding in my head. His image did not vanish, the soldier with a big gun, unsteady hands, and a look in his eyes I could not understand” (7-15, ‘Ashrawi). The speaker also talks about how she can see the soldier so clearly with her eyes closed that we might have a pair of eyes in our head. The speaker says, “if I can see him so clearly with my eyes closed, it could be that inside our heads we each have one spare set of eyes to make up for the ones we lose” (16-21, ‘Ashrawi). The speaker also states her birthday is coming up and on her birthday she will get a glass eye. She says things might look weird with the glass eye because when she looked through marbles things looked different, round and fat. The speaker ends the poem saying a little baby also lost her eye and wonders if the soldier shot her