Colm Feore Essays

In their lifetime, people will doubt who they are and question how life would have turned out had they made different choices or acted differently. In the poem “Ask Me”, the poet William Stafford uses literary devices to deliver a message: we must accept that sometimes what happens in life is out of our control, and that we should trust fate to help shape our lives and our inner selves. One literary device the poet uses to express this theme is allegory. The river within the poem, represents a driving