Julio Polance's Poem Identity

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The theme of Julio Polance’s poem “Identity” talks about being different from people or being your own person by not following what other people are doing, but doing whatever pleases you instead. The first literary device for this poem would be imagery. Julio Polance shows imagery in his poem by stating, He’d “rather be a tall, ugly weed, clinging on cliff, like an eagle wind-wavering above high, jagged rocks.” He says this because he wants the reader of the story to see and experience what he does through this poem. Usually when we talk about weed vs flowers we assume the the weed is bad and the flowers are good but for the is poem it is flipped and, it is this way since the flowers represent society being being normal and the weed represents

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