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A New DawnYu Jin Miguel Lim (Mar 2016)
A new dawn breaksThe bottle beckons me
The sweetness jumps at my lipsIt calls out to me
“Let me give you a hand”But I know it won’t.
A new dawn breaksBut not for meI’ve lost it all
Nothing waits for me.The pool of water
like a portal to tranquility.
Oh! To be at peaceOh! To end the struggle
A new dawn broke,I filled myself with lead.
A new dawn breaksThe bottle beckons me
The sweetness jumps at my lipsIt calls out to me
“Let me give you a hand”But I know it won’t.
A new dawn breaksBut not for meI’ve lost it all
Nothing waits for me.The pool of water
like a portal to tranquility.
Oh! To be at peaceOh! To end the struggle
A new dawn broke,I filled myself with lead.
What is the central purpose?
How would a reader assemble poetic clues to
reach that central purpose?
What types of figurative language
did you use?Symbol, Metonymy, Personification, Simile, and Apostrophe.
A new dawn breaksThe bottle beckons me
The sweetness jumps at my lipsIt calls out to me
“Let me give you a hand”But I know it won’t.
A new dawn breaksBut not for meI’ve lost it all
Nothing waits for me.The pool of water
like a portal to tranquility.
Oh! To be at peaceOh! To end the struggle
A new dawn broke,I filled myself with lead.
What is the central purpose?
A new dawn breaksThe bottle beckons me
The sweetness jumps at my lipsIt calls out to me
“Let me give you a hand”But I know it won’t.
A new dawn breaksBut not for meI’ve lost it all
Nothing waits for me.The pool of water
like a portal to tranquility.
Oh! To be at peaceOh! To end the struggle
A new dawn broke,I filled myself with lead.
Symbol
Simile
Personification
Metonymy
Apostrophe
Symbol “a new dawn” to make it seem like the start of a new day brings new opportunities, when in reality the main character is faced with a new struggle: that of having to decide whether or not to drink, and, later on, decide how to end life with the final new dawn having “broke”.
Personification to give the tempting bottle the impression of being like a person, as it tried to coax the alcoholic to drink.
What is the connotation/tone of your poem