Poetic Devices In House Beautiful, House Mariselle By Julia Alvarez

Julia Alvarez employs in her poem a variety of metaphors, imagery, similes and other poetic devices to enhance and make her work engaging. The author hints the misleading idea of love and warns about how different your own opinion of love can be with that you faced in reality. However, there is still hope to mend our hearts and live without a sentimental relationship with someone instead she decides to appreciate love without false expectations tolerating both its virtues and defects. In the first stanza, the author elaborates how love is deceptive and the speaker often falls into disillusionment due to the idea that she possesses, a perfect or impeccable love. Metaphorically it is described how many times she “has been broken over and over” by the person she once trusted and loved. Once she had him in a very high esteem then, she sought other passions as a “god”, and even the “revolution” but only Possibly incredibly serious was her afflictions that “her mother begged her to survive” her suffocating love situation. Her mother …show more content…
She perceives herself as longing as a dream that disappears and returns when she sees many lovers as if they were "ads" surrounding her daily life. But despite all her struggles, she is still her own heroine because no matter how difficult the disappointments in her life, she is still ready to “heal her heart and turn the page.” Using an example of sensory imagery we can understand that it is possible to start a new chapter in our lives once again. Maybe not as imagined in a magazine or in a poem of an ideal love, but rather sharing with those where our love is genuine and you are able to be satisfied with