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    Poetry Analysis - Touched by An Angel

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    The poem "Touched By An Angel" by Maya Angelou explores the concept of love as a liberating feeling. It shows how the persona and others live in loneliness until love comes into their lives and breaks them free from their shells. The poem suggests that if people seek love, it will save them from the fear that controls their lives. It implies that love is the only thing that can set people free. The poem uses personification, hyperbole, and alliteration to convey how love has the power to break chains of fear and loneliness and set people free, despite the risks of falling in love.

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    The poem "Touched By An Angel" by Maya Angelou explores the concept of love as a liberating feeling. It shows how the persona and others live in loneliness until love comes into their lives and breaks them free from their shells. The poem suggests that if people seek love, it will save them from the fear that controls their lives. It implies that love is the only thing that can set people free. The poem uses personification, hyperbole, and alliteration to convey how love has the power to break chains of fear and loneliness and set people free, despite the risks of falling in love.

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    The poem "Touched By An Angel" by Maya Angelou explores the concept of love as a liberating feeling. It shows how the persona and others live in loneliness until love comes into their lives and breaks them free from their shells. The poem suggests that if people seek love, it will save them from the fear that controls their lives. It implies that love is the only thing that can set people free. The poem uses personification, hyperbole, and alliteration to convey how love has the power to break chains of fear and loneliness and set people free, despite the risks of falling in love.

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    Poetry Analysis - Touched by An Angel

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    The poem "Touched By An Angel" by Maya Angelou explores the concept of love as a liberating feeling. It shows how the persona and others live in loneliness until love comes into their lives and breaks them free from their shells. The poem suggests that if people seek love, it will save them from the fear that controls their lives. It implies that love is the only thing that can set people free. The poem uses personification, hyperbole, and alliteration to convey how love has the power to break chains of fear and loneliness and set people free, despite the risks of falling in love.

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    Touched by an Angel Poetry Analysis

    TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL POETRY ANALYSIS


    The poem Touched By An Angel written by Maya Angelou explores concept of the
    liberating feeling of love. The poet shows this through many different quotes, the first
    being live coiled in shells of loneliness / until love leaves its high holy temple / and
    comes into our sight. This shows that the personas (and the people around them)
    sense of loneliness is broken when love comes into their life. This also shows that the
    persona lives in relevant solitude, which is again used as a contrast for the escape that
    love brings later in the poem. Another line, Yet if we are bold / love strikes away the
    chains of fear shows that the persona believes that if them and the people around
    them seek love, it will save them from the fear that the poet has implied controls their
    life. It implies that something has happened to make them have this sense of fear
    around them. Finally, the line Yet it is only love / which sets us free. These two
    lines suggest that love is a gateway to a world usually unknown. These quotes shown
    that the poem is about how love can liberate people from sadness.
    Touched by an Angel uses many different language techniques to convey the idea of
    love as a feeling of liberation. The first of these is the line love strikes away the
    chains of fear / from our souls., which personifies love as a rebellious character,
    willing to break the personas fear. This personification makes love become a stronger
    entity, no longer an abstract thought. Finally, the use of the personification gives love
    the sense of power, as the persona believes that it is the only thing that can stop fear,
    loneliness and despair. The second use of a language is the hyperbole in that love
    costs all we are / and will ever be. / Yet it is only love / which sets us free. The use of
    the hyperbole exaggerates the fact that whilst love is expensive it is costly both in
    the past and the future and if the persona were to make a mistake it could have
    negative consequences, but the risk is worth it if it works as the persona would no
    longer have the sense of dejection as before. Using this language technique the poet
    gives a sense of risk to falling in love, but then also juxtaposes it against the next 2
    lines. Finally, by using this hyperbole the poet also highlights the high price that love
    can have against the potential rewards. The last techniques the poet uses in a minor
    alliteration in until love leaves its high holy temple. The effect of the alliteration of
    the two words emphasises that love is above the persona. The two words used in the
    alliteration are very strong words, which hold connotations of strength, power and
    mightiness. The poet using these two words with the same first sound together
    heightens the effect of the already powerful phrase, thereby showing loves power.
    The main theme of the poem is well conveyed through the use of many different
    language techniques by the poet.`

    Ally Pitt 7T

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