Life is a Dance

Life is a Dance

1 There is no better way to describe life without a smile.

2 A smile is the meaning of life.

3 Everyone has a different way of expressing their description.

 4 To me, “life is a dance, you learn as you go.” (Seskin, Shamblin)

5 You can’t always determine your path of life, but you are in control of it.

6 “Sometimes you lead and sometimes you follow.” (Seskin, Shamblin)

7 “Don’t worry about what you don’t know.” (Seskin, Shamblin)

8 Your life is in your own hands, “sink or swim you gotta give it a whirl.” (Seskin, Shamblin)

9 Yet life is a bewildered knowing, there is so much unlearned.

10 Life is like the weather of Iowa, you never know what is going to happen. One day you are up       11 and the next day, BOOM, it’s like a tornado hit.

12 But it’s okay because “beautiful things never last, that’s why fireflies flash.” (Pope)

13 Be that firefly glistening in the crowd and ask not what in life you can do –                                         14 ask what you can do in your life.

15 Living is rare, most people just exist.

16 Don’t be another face in the crowd, be that person who not only has a name,                                    17 but has a reason to be remembered.

18 Life is a dance. Will you learn as you go?

 

 

Line 4 is an example of a metaphor. A metaphor is when you compare two things using the word is. “ Life is a Dance, you learn as you go”, metaphorically speaking means you just have to let life flow as you keep moving on.

Line 8 is an example of a metonymy. A Metonymy is using a single featureto represent a whole. Your hands are simply the single feature representing your life being the whole.

Line 9 is an example of an oxymoron. An oxymoron is a juxtaposion of words that seem to contradict oe another. “Bewildered knowing.” Bewildered means surprised, and knowing is the opposite, but it makes since because I was simultaneously working single handed on this poem.

Line 10 is an example of a simile. A simile is when you compare two things using the words like or as. “Life is like the weather of Iowa” just like; A.P Lang is like the death of me but helpful at the same time. They’re both bipolar…

Line 11 is an example of an onomatopoeia. An onomatopeia is the sound of saying the word and the sound it makes. The word “boom”, is being used as a transition word and theoretically, the boom is what happens when the tornado hits.

Line 13 is an example of diction. Diction is unique word choice. Although it sounds super cheesy it is a stand out word choice, considering when you are glistening you really stand out! By using this surprising word choice it really makes my tone seem joyful but calm and it flows.

Lines 13 and 14 are an example of an Antimetabole. An Antimetabole is the repitetion of words in reverse order. By having this in my poem it really makes you think, and expect more from yourself.

 

Works Cited

Pope, Ron. (2008). Fireflies. Daylight [CD]. New York, NY.

Shamblin, Allen. Seskin, Steve. (1992). Life’s a Dance [Recorded by John Michael Montgomery]. Life’s a Dance [CD]. New York, NY: Atlantic Records.