Value Poem
“A Mind Of A Diamond” She approached the mirror ignoring it’s untrue criticism with genuine confidence. Hurtful words made by the ones with green eyes attempted to attack her, but terribly failed. The desired positivity she radiated cut all negativity surrounding her. The darkness wasn’t her mind. Her mind was like a diamond that was compressed from darkness. The high temperature of bad emotions, were pressed, to form something beautiful, a diamond. From the darkness she experienced, she was able to become ignorant of it and the darkness became the happiness that was able to create the mind of a once, unwanted rock, into a diamond. She grew back like a plant that was stepped on, damaged, but destined to grow back stronger. You could see the fight in her eyes, Her strength burned brighter than the darkness. Confidence, positivity, happiness, all anyone could ever want. And she uncovered it by understanding that, Her scars ran deeper than the edge of the ocean, but people were only brave enough to swim in the shallow end. She always had swam in the deep end even though she has almost drowned many times, because it made her a better swimmer. |
“A Mind of a Diamond” Literary Analysis
In my poem “A Mind of a Diamond”, I present the emotional damage that I have experienced throughout my first half of my life being internally torn apart. In my poem, I utilize a variety of similes to compare the powerful features of the earth to my state of mind to convey my internal growth throughout the years. The overall message of my poem is to elucidate the internal damage that was thrown upon me, and that I was still capable of overcoming these emotional blocks in life while growing back stronger to be a better person. This is because of the understanding that absorbed knowing that a numerous amount of people might also be going through something similiar to what I have gone through and that most people find their way out of it. I begin the poem informing the readers of the lively confidence and happiness the girl has using Firstly, in the first stanza of my poem, I use an illusion to make connections to the famous work of shakespeare called “The Green Eyed Monster”, because the green eyed monster in his work represents a terrible jealousy of people, and the jealousy eventually will overcome the person and they will attack the innocent of who they are jealous of. I connect these ideas when I say “Hurtful words made by the ones with green eyes attempted to attack her, but terribly failed.”(2-3). This immediately shows that the character in the poem has such incredible confidence, that the ones with “green eyes”, who are the jealous ones, are incapable from bringing her down with them because of her strong mental state, and this represents the confidence that I was able to rebuild. In the next stanza of my poem, I go straight into utilizing similes to compare the strength of the earth's features to the strength of her mind. I draw these interconnected concepts together when I say “Her mind was like a diamond that was compressed from darkness.” (6) to show that her mind was beautiful and powerful and how it takes being weak and at your lowest to reach this state. I use a simile in the second stanza again to restate my idea when I say “She grew back like a plant that was stepped on, damaged, but destined to grow back stronger.”(15-16). This simile emphasizes the idea of having to reach your lowest state to grow to your highest state. You will never have the knowledge of how to avoid your lowest state if you’ve never been there before. In all, it takes experience to be the best version of yourself. I continue to compare the earth's strong features to her her strong mind in the last stanza, but the idea becomes more powerful as I reach deep down into her mind and earth. I begin to express this concept when I say that “Her strength burned brighter than the darkness.”, I used this simile to emphasize how her astonishing mental strength out shines the darkness which alludes “hell” to provide a deeper meaning behind the work “darkness”. As I reach to the deepest part of her mind I describe it using a simile when I state “Her scars ran deeper than the edge of the ocean”, because to describe the extent of her mind, I choose a feature of earth to compare that is the deepest and least visited, yet her mind extends even more. Again, I use a combination of similes to compare the strong features of the earth to the powerful mind of the character to convey the growth i’ve made mentally throughout my life. Mental growth can be compared to anything that is powerful, but in my case, I chose the earth's features because they make a great connection both deeply and strongly with a mind. To conclude, the purpose of the this poem is to show how over the years, the mind can overcome difficulties and become incredibly strong. |