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Explaining My Depression To My Mother By Sabrina Benaim

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Depression can lead person to a place full of anger, hate and loss. It makes people get lost in their thoughts as they start thinking a lot and it usually happens because of a reason. The poem “Explaining my depression to my mother” by Sabrina Benaim is a free verse poem that explains the depression of a teenager because of the death of her father but what depressed her more was her mother as she forces her to do things she doesn’t want to do.

The poet uses many conventions to attract the reader’s attention and to make the poem more interesting, clear and creative. All the conventions the poet uses helps him deliver the intended meaning of the poem. Sabrina Benaim uses many conventions such as: simile in line (2)(One day it is as small as
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