Comparing Poems 'Being True To Myself By Diana Reyers' Poem

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Diana Reyers once said , “Being true to yourself is about mustering up the courage to have difficult conversations, knowing that you may not meet the other person's expectations of who they think you should be”. Reyers implies that it is difficult to live up to a social expectation of who others want you to be. One needs to have those moments where you challenge others perception of you. After reading girl and speak up, both poems share the commonality of the structure used in the poem, but they differ in how the structure highlights the theme that you have to be or act a certain way to live up to society In the poems girl and speak up the authors share a commonality in using the same structure for their poems. For instance in the poem girl,

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