Poem help please!?

I'm analyzing Identity b and have to make a color code for the literary devices I see. So far, I have Simile – let them be as flowers


Alliteration – clinging cliffs, wind-wavering, surface stone, human hands


Personification – the madness of the vast, eternal sky.


Symbol – eagle


I know it's an extended metaphor, but which lines are the exact metaphor and how do these literary terms make this poem a well written piece?


Let them be as flowers,


always watered, fed, guarded, admired,


but harnessed to a pot of dirt.


I'd rather be a tall, ugly weed,


clinging on cliffs, like an eagle


wind-wavering above high, jagged rocks.


To have broken through the surface of stone,


to live, to feel exposed to the madness


of the vast, eternal sky.


To be swayed by the breezes of an ancient sea,


carrying my soul, my seed, beyond the mountains of time


or into the abyss of the bizarre


I'd rather be unseen, and if


then shunned by everyone,


than to be a pleasant-smelling flower,


growing in clusters in the fertile valleys,


where they're praised, handled, and plucked


by greedy, human hands.


I'd rather smell of musty, green stench


than of sweet, fragrant lilac.


If I could stand alone, strong and free,


I'd rather be a tall, ugly weed.

Poem help please!?
I am not philisophical when it comes to poems, and I don't look for hidden meaning in them.





If you are taking a poetry class start a study group to work with. That would help you much.





I don't have a clue what a metaphor is.
Reply:I don't think you have a metaphor in there... A metaphor is when you say that something is another thing, which, in reality, it isn't.


For example, a metaphor would be "The clay of the pot is the steel of my cage." Or something along the lines of that.



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