The Poem Madness

This poem talks about being in a dark place and being in a part of your life that you have secluded yourself from everyone else, but you use your ‘madness’ to your advantage and conquer the that point of your life and is remembered by the people around them. This poem called ‘Madness was written by Kellin Quinn. This is a nonet poem(A Poem with 9 stanza’s), with 6x3x2x4x4x3x2x9x4 lines, with an inconsistent rhyming pattern of ABCDE.

L: Kellin uses minimal literal language, but when in use he repeats stanzas. He repeats the stanza “Sometimes we all lose strength, Please don’t loose you faith.” Hopeful and spiritual line, I believe that he repeats stanza for a stronger effect on the reader-audience. Kellin also uses the method of alliteration, in the line “Out of the skies I shaped the silence” he is emphasizing and trying to get the audience to further look into the meaning behind the line, using ‘S’ in alteration is commonly associated with implying slyness and danger. ‘A Piece of the word was only mine’ this is

When Kellin talks about his life, it’s more dark and depressing. He talks about how his life he kept to himself and shut people out so he wouldn’t get emotionally hurt and how even though he kept to himself and kept alone he didn’t want people to stop loosing faith in him. Also referring to when someone is at a very low and dark point of their life, a place where you can’t see It getting any better. In the 6th stanza he’s comparing being at this dark place with being stretched, almost as if the darker the point of your life is the more you seemed to be stretched before you finally snap- which I think in this case would be suicide. But the last line has a lighter twist to it, ‘Catch Hold of The Madness’ might sound dark but when you further look in to it you can see that it talking about using your insanity and darkness as a strength because it’ll forever be a weakness until you use it for