Summary Of The Poem To The Addict Who Mugged Me

Poetry is something that is remarkable and is a special piece of literature.There are as many type of poetry as there are poets. Poetry is a piece of art that can be written, for exciting pleasure by beautiful. Poems are a piece of writing that deals with the nature. To the Addict Who Mugged Me is a poem about a man who was mugged and he is writing a letter to the person who mugged him but in a poem form. The Poem To the Addict Who Mugged Me originated from the book I Know Your Kind. I Know Your Kind endures as a locked and touching debut where Brewer takes in the horrors of substance abuse, the spiritual rigors of recovery, and ultimately, the fraught relationship between an obliterated landscape and self-obliteration.The author of this

Theme the subject of a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition which is like a subject. This poem has a theme of violence; which is the behavior involving hurt or damage to something. The theme of this poem is the main reason that made me want to write about it. Seeing a individual who has been through a tough time and being able to find hope in making through there situation by writing a poem. Who is speaking in this story? The person speaking in this story is a individual who was mugged, and is writing to his mugger. This writing have many different parts of figurative language used. This poem has figurative language all throughout the poem. One example of figurative language used in this poem is personification. When the author states “When goodwill tells me to be tender,” Personification is when human characteristics are given to an animal or an object. Along with that figurative language another example of figurative language used was imagery. The author use imagery when the author uses the spoon in the poem to represent the drugs. “your entire universe boiling in the breast of a spoon” (located in the fifth stanza) .The author gives goodwill a human characteristics. Another example of figurative language is sarcasm. Sarcasm is meant to mock with a purpose to amuse and hurt someone, or some section of society. When the author stated “I’m generous like that—I give myself away to erase any sign that I was here.” The author is not literally trying to tell the person that mugged him thank you but instead is being sarcastic instead. Another example of figurative language is Tautology. Tautology is the repetitive use of phrases or words that have similar meanings. Mr. So-and-So is an example of tautology because the author is reusing the same words that mean the same thing. One last example of figurative language is imagery. Imagery means to use figurative language to represent objects, actions, and ideas in such a