Analyze the linguistic basis of one FIGURE OF SPEECH in any poem from The Compact Bedford Anthology, explaining in specific detail: 1) how the comparison is made, 2) how it relates to other figurative language in the poem, and—most of all—3) how it contributes to the overall effect and meaning of the poem. You may write about any poem you like, as long as it is included in the Anthology.Analysis means taking something apart, identifying its component parts, the relation of those parts to each other, and their relation to other parts and to the whole. In this case, the ″something″ you are to take apart is a figure of speech, an example of non-literal language in one poem.Your analysis needs to do more than simply describe a particular figure of speech. Your essay must make a POINT about the use of that figure. For example, in ″The Writer″ (the poem about the girl in her room writing a story), the poet makes more than one comparison with language and images of boats or ships. WHY?
