Windows

Speaker

• A person looking from the inside of the window("Before me: houses and trees are shadows")

Simile

• "Neon flares between them like sudden fire" (Describing the color shining between the shadows)

Metaphor

• "The sunset spans the whole world before me" (The sunset can't actually span the whole world before you.)

Tone

• Wonder
• Sad
• Longing to be somewhere else or see something different outside the window

Imagery

• "Strangely vacant with riderless cars" (Life becomes unrecoginizable from so high up)

Imagery

• "The lamp curls it aurora into the corners of the room" (The light is really bright.)

Personification

• "The freeways run, always vacant riderless cars empty air" (Freeways can't actually run)

Theme

• Be more aware of your surroundings instead of being oblivious to life
• Don't focus so much on yourself, but more on what's around you

Secondary Source