For Women Who Are 'Difficult' to Love

Types of devices used to articulate this poem.

For Woman Who Are Difficult to Love

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The poem is in free verse, without punctuation, capitalization, or stanzas

Metaphors and Similes

In the opening of the poem there is one metaphor and one simile. In the metaphor, the speaker describes the woman as "a horse running alone." In the simile, the man compares her to "an impossible highway to a burning house." Later on, she also uses two metaphors when she says the man's body is "just a long shadow seeking yours" and when she tells the woman she "can't make homes out of human beings."

Symbols and Motifs below:

https://www.gradesaver.com/for-women-who-are-difficult-to-love/study-guide/symbols-allegory-motifs

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