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English, 05.10.2020 18:01, bheam12

PLZ HELP 50 POINTS DONT RANDOM I WILL REPORT A lyric poem is a poem that expresses personal feelings or emotions. In “Given to Rust,” how does Vievee Francis use figurative language to convey emotion? How do the speaker’s emotions change throughout the piece? Identify 3-5 instances of the author’s use of figurative language and explain how each contributes to the emotions of the poem, using evidence from the text to support your response.

Given to Rust
BY: Vievee Francis

Every time I open my mouth my teeth reveal
more than I mean to. I can’t stop tonguing them, my teeth.
Almost giddy to know they’re still there (my mother lost hers)
but I am embarrassed nonetheless that even they aren’t
pretty. Still, I did once like my voice, the way it moved
through the gap in my teeth like birdsong in the morning,
like the slow swirl of a creek at dusk. Just yesterday
a woman closed her eyes as I read aloud, and
said she wanted to sleep in the sound of it, my voice.
I can still sing some. Early cancer didn’t stop the compulsion
to sing but
there’s gravel now. An undercurrent
that also reveals me. Time and disaster. A heavy landslide
down the mountain. When you stopped speaking to me
what you really wanted was for me to stop speaking to you. To
stifle the sound of my voice. I know.
Didn’t want the quicksilver of it in your ear.
What does it mean
to silence another? It means I ruminate on the hit
of rain against the tin roof of childhood, how I could listen
all day until the water rusted its way in. And there I was
putting a pan over here and a pot over there to catch it.

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