Literary Techniques Used In The Poem Gold By Pat Mora

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The poem “Gold” by Pat Mora (Elements of Literature book) takes place in an open desert while the sun is setting. The narrator in the story speaks in a first person point of view, and they have a peaceful tone about them. I think that imagery is the literary device that has a repeated focus throughout the poem. The focus is the sun’s light and how all things can be beautiful with it.
In the seventh line of the third stanza is an example of imagery: “watching red and purple sands”. This implies that the sun’s light can make things that aren’t considered beautiful, stunning. The golden light of the sun even turns the brown sand into a shimmering, red and purple floor. While reading this poem, I realized that all things have the potential to

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