It is undoubted that poems are the most emotional and symbolic creative writing pieces. When two completely different texts can be identified with so many similarities, it shows that diction and many of the elements are universal when they’re extensive and can justify their own meaning. As The Secret Life of Books goes beyond the surface of ink and paper, Birthday proves that being born could be more of a punishment rather than a gift. Overall, Stephen Edgar and M.T Buckley use extended metaphors, a higher power, and tone to come to the same conclusion of how life might be deceiving you to get what it wants. Particularly the strongest similarity between these poems is their complex and impactful extended metaphors. As birthday uses allusion to promote the true meaning though a prisoner of the ww2 prison, tslob also shows an extended metaphor with books and their true power. When Buckley uses strong diction such as “enemy territory”,” unit 82”, and “missions”, it is portraying birth as a soldier caught …show more content…
When Buckley incorporates a subtle “them”, it leaves the readers wondering if there is some sort of puppet master as it digresses a figure who isn’t present, an apostrophe. Shown in the poem, the 1st person point of view lets us see that the character is on the run, from some sort of almighty power when it is said “made sure I wouldn’t escape”. Again in “The secret Life of books”, Edgar draws focus to the fact that books are running the show, every part of the show to be exact. However, the books need you, they work through you as they consume and control your every move. This has proven that the force in this poem has created an illusion of a safe life, when in reality it is a dangerous and risky one. All drawing back to the conclusion that true need and desire is a dominating and prioritizing expectation that these god-like figures