Summary Of Sometimes Mysterly By Luis Omar Salinas

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Throughout the poem “Sometimes Mysteriously” the author, Luis Omar Salinas, utilizes a variety of poetic techniques, especially figurative language, to reveal the speaker's thoughts on the topic of loneliness. In the beginning of the text, Salinas uses personification to put emphasis on the speaker’s loneliness. Moreover, to build on the speaker being lonely, Salinas has a distinct solemn tone throughout the poem, to show the toll loneliness is taking on the speaker. Finally, Salinas conveys his theme by shifting the tone and attitude of the speaker from pessimistic and gloomy to optimistic. The change in the reader's tone helps show that it took courage to face the speaker’s loneliness and this courage is what resulted in the speaker’s happiness. …show more content…

In the beginning of the poem, the speaker’s tone is solemn and his/ her voice, filled with sadness, “My loneliness arrives ghostlike and pretentious, it seeks my soul, it is ravenous and hurting.” The speaker's choice of the words “ghost-like” convey that his loneliness arrives effortlessly, implying he is lonely a lot of the time. His choice of the word ravenous and hurting suggests that loneliness is causing the speaker pain. Through Salina’s diction, he is able to create a solemn and gloomy tone in the first 12 lines. In line 13, the speaker’s tone beings to change, “I want to find a solution, so I write letters, poems, and sometimes.” The speaker's tone has shifted from pessimistic to optimistic, revealings that the speaker’s attitude has changed to be more persistent and determined. It is this determination and persistence that allows the speaker to fill his void of loneliness. By Salinas shifting the speaker’s tone and attitude he is able to further develop the theme by revealing that by changing his attitude, the speaker was …show more content…

In the text, “I understand I need courage, and sometimes, mysteriously, I feel whole.” Salinas is using the metaphor “I feel whole” to reveal what makes the speaker feel no longer lonely. “I feel whole” means the speaker no longer feels lonely, due to him having courage. Prior to this metaphor, Salinas reveals that it took courage to fill the speaker’s void of loneliness, “I touch solitude on the shoulder and surrender to a great tranquility.” Here the speaker is describing an act of courage, by addressing his lonely state leading to him finally being calm. Through the service of a metaphor, Salinas is able to establish that due to his courage the speaker was no longer

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