Pretty How Town: Complete Annotation

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“Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town” Complete Annotation The poem “Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town” is about a character named anyone. Anyone lives in a pretty how town. He sings about his dreams that he wants to accomplish, but he never will accomplish. The town does not care about his dreams. They are too self centered, and they do not realize they are stuck in a repeating cycle. They know he will not accomplish his dreams because when he gets older reality will destroy his dreams. Time passes, and a new character named noone is introduced. Anyone and noone fall deeply in love. The other people in the town get married, have kids, and eventually died. Anyone finally died, and noone died shortly after him. In the meantime, the people of the …show more content…

Rhyme is shown in the first, second, third, fourth, eighth, and ninth stanzas. In the first stanza, “...town…” and “...down…” is an example of rhyme. In the second stanza, “...small…” and “...all…” represents rhyme. In the third stanza, rhyme is shown when the speaker says, “...few…” and “...grew…”. More examples in the poem include, “...leaf…” and “...grief…”, “...deep…” and “...sleep…”, and “...ding…” and …show more content…

The speaker repeats, “...spring summer autumn winter…” three times throughout the poem. The speaker also repeats, “..sun moon stars rain…” three times.
The examples of repetition could also be examples of symbolism. When the speaker says, “...spring summer autumn winter…”, “...sun moon stars rain…”, or “...sleep wake hope and then…” it is symbolizing the time that is passing through anyone’s lifetime. Symbolism is also shown when the speaker says, “...up so floating many bells down…” and “...dong and ding…”. They are symbolizing that there are funeral bells ringing, and lives are always ending while others are beginning.
There is also personification examples in the poem. The speaker said, “...only the snow can begin to explain…” and shows personification because snow cannot explain anything.
Another example of figurative language in the poem is assonance. When the speaker says, “...side by side little by little and was by was all by all and deep by deep and more by more…” it shows assonance.
One more example of figurative language in “Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town” is paradox. At first the poem does not make much sense, but as I thought about it more and more I realized something. I realized that the speaker was trying to tell me that people are stuck in a cycle, and they do not see that they are

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