Poem Analysis
By Tanner Hemer
The poem under analysis is Love and Hate by an amateur poet, Tyler Tyger. The poem compares the strong feelings of differences in life between “Love” and “Hate,” and paints a picture in your head, using a variety of figurative language, similes and metaphors, of exactly how strong the feelings are.
First of all, the author compares “Love” to many things that appeal to people's senses like a warm summers day, a wildflower that is rare and pretty or even like chocolate - unhealthy but good. Also compares “Hate” to things that people just dread to think about such as hate being compared to a jail cell being cold and strange, a black hole consuming all that is good and even like a roaring fire. The first simile the author uses is “Love is like a warm summers day, down by the meadow, ready to play. Hate is like a bitter winter night, frost bite creeping through the windows biting your toes.” This shows the general idea how people tend to enjoy summer days and nights with warm weather more than the cold winter nights that you seem to be able to feel at night. The comparisons give you the strength of both love and hate that can fulfill a life. Another simile used is “Hate is like a hurricane, rough, unruly and painful” and it speaks strongly because so much can be lost in a hurricane. Whether it is family members, friends, a town or just personal belongings that are lost hate can also do the same things and destroy so many friendships or others turn their back to you because what you’ve done. Hate does absolutely no good!
I think that the feelings of “Love” and “Hate” were described perfectly and how one moment love can make you feel like you are on top of the world and nothing could bring you down, but then that moment turns to hate it is like “a dull day, never fading away”. You live with the feeling of hate longer than the feeling of love can keep you atop. I enjoyed the poem and the poet did a fantastic job describing how strong feelings can be in both “Love” and “Hate”.
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