SONG OF BECOMING

STRUCTURE

• A long poem; few enjambment lines
• consists of a lot of end-stopped lines
• verse= free
• stanzas= consists of 4 stanzas; the number of lines in each
• stanza varies; there are a few quatrains,

Structure II

• Space helps to show the dramatic change in the boys
• and their character
• rhyme= no end rhyme, no internal rhyme (little consonance)
• rhyme scheme is present in one stanza
• meter= slow cadence, iambic pentameter present

Metaphor: “They've grown to become trees plunging deep roots into earth”

Hyperbole:“Suddenly now they’ve
grown,
grown more than the years of a normal life,”

Personification: “their blue-red-green kites
whistling, leaping,”

The speaker remembers the playful, childish, innocent characteristics of the two boys who have now grown into men. They are now independent and able to make dramatic changes by using their own hands to build and create whatever they want.

Related Song: "When I Grow up" by The Beach Boys

Tuqan, Fadwa.
"Song of Becoming." Trans. Naomi Shihab Nye.
Reading the World:
Contemporary
Literature From
Around the Globe.
Ed. Carol Francis
Logan, IA: Perfection
Learning, 2012.
eBook.

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