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Essay / Don't cry! The Uplifting Poem by Mary Frye - 562
The poem Do Not Weep by Mary Frye is a positive and uplifting poem that worked on many levels and has many appeals, intelligence appeal, emotional appeal and imaginative appeal . , the poem has an appeal to the imagination and has many features that show it. First of all, we have many metaphors, "I am a thousand blowing winds" and "I am the diamond reflections on the snow" are examples. These metaphors indirectly compare it to greatness, to their quantity, trying to understand us by telling us how it is everywhere. He may not be here in person, but he is everywhere, as the metaphors of the wind, the snow, the sun ripening grains everywhere say. Secondly, the poem has the symbol of “don’t stand by my grave and cry/I’m not here”. It is a symbol that functions on many levels and has many meanings. The first meaning is that he says he has died, so he is not here. Not there, not physically but virtually. This means that his body is there but not his soul. His soul is everywhere. This brings us back to the metaphors used with...