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Many times people express their feelings through words others can understand but in the poem, “Lost Soul” by Brianna Alvarez, she expresses her way of feeling and thought through poetic and literary devices. There is a use of imagery and the theme to imply heartbreak, suffrage, and hopelessness. The poem express how the speaker wants to be left alone of something or someone that has hurt or is hurting them. The poem is about a pain the speaker is going through that they no longer want to feel or of something they want to let go of but question if they really should. In the second line (Alvarez 2), “battle that shattered the soul”, we can infer that something big must have happened with the use of the word battle to hurt the person deeply that it affected their persona. The poem can also be related to a broken heart that has gone through a lot and cannot seem to let go; that whatever hurt it is still with them no matter how hard they try to get rid of it. The title, Lost Soul, can mean that the speaker has nowhere to run from this pain therefore they are lost in the way where they a...

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