Loneliness the best friend to many people in the world. It's a part of every human life regardless of how interactive a person lives. Everybody needs support from others, but yet no one wants to show the vulnerability within their soul. In the poem "Hanging Fire" by Audre Lorde the description of how people live through life in complete solitude seeking attention from their dearest loves, but yet cannot find a way to speak out their true feeling on life.
When reading the poem "Hanging Fire" the reader may feel many different emotions due to the way that the author has chosen to write this essay. This poem has a depressed/timid tone. "In 'Hanging Fire' Lorde'sfocus on the several issues that confront the teenager within the poem and affect teenagers in the extended world: the
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This being said, when reading this stanza the reader can conclude that like most teenagers this girl is going through what most teenagers do; mixed emotions, falling in love, denial towards ones body, and even the ending of her existence due to being alone. When reviewing this poem Rexley expressed that in the first stanza, "The persona, a fourteen-year-old female, uses terse, declarative sentences, speaking directly to her audience, making readers aware of her anxieties, her isolation, and her loneliness. She explains that she is in love with an immature boy who still sucks his thumb in private, that she is worried about her ashy knees and a skin that has “betrayed her,” and that she is occupied with death and dying, for she says, “what if I die before morning.” While all of these issues worry the teenager, what affects her most is the fact that her mother is unapproachable: “and mamma is in the bedroom/ with the door closed.” (Rexley 1) helps the the reader conclude that although it is