Do any words come to mind when one thinks of being “Spoken Into Creation”? The anonymous high school author, Ethel Song, writes about his own experiences during his junior high school years were his words were stolen away by his icon of adoration. Song writes about his feelings of weightlessness that came with the nothingness of lost words. The poem expresses his journey to realization. In “Spoken Into Creation,” the poet uses personification, similes, and tone shift to explore the idea that the actions of other people can have a great impact on one’s life.
The author uses personification to show how a single person has the power to make a person feel a certain way. In the second paragraph, Song paints an image of the girl that he idolized
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His powerful use of the line “She shouted at me, “Your words are nothing”/ I am words, I am nothing.” (Song 14-15) displays a tone of emptiness to the readers. Moreover, Song’s utilization of the word “nothing” shows that he no longer feels as if he has value or is capable of progressing any further, this leaves Song with feelings of weightlessness which came as an aftershock of his idol’s hurtful words; however, as the poem comes to an end, a shift in tone is evident in the lines, “Joy, confidence agape”/ These words will never be stolen from me” (Song 29-30) Though Song was greatly impacted by his criticizer, he found more life in the words that God had spoken into him which overpowered the words of his own celebrity, this caused him to once again gain more hope in his life with additions of other virtues such as joy and love. The shift in tone from empty to self assured reveals that though this experience started out dreadfully, Song was able to choose which words impacted him more, selecting the positive words over the negative ones and allowing himself to overall become a more capable