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Broken: RED-Personification Pink-Metaphor Yellow - How It Applies To My Essential Questions

This poem describes what it feels like to be broken through vivid metaphors and imagery. It conveys the deep sadness, loneliness, and hopelessness of depression. Specifically, it discusses crying excessively, feeling like no one cares whether you live or die, being unable to write or smile, and watching others swim while you drown in your own depression. The poem portrays depression as a burning fire that isolates you and a crushing weight that makes even breathing difficult. It ultimately expresses the pain of feeling broken with no way to pick up the pieces of your shattered self.

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Broken: RED-Personification Pink-Metaphor Yellow - How It Applies To My Essential Questions

This poem describes what it feels like to be broken through vivid metaphors and imagery. It conveys the deep sadness, loneliness, and hopelessness of depression. Specifically, it discusses crying excessively, feeling like no one cares whether you live or die, being unable to write or smile, and watching others swim while you drown in your own depression. The poem portrays depression as a burning fire that isolates you and a crushing weight that makes even breathing difficult. It ultimately expresses the pain of feeling broken with no way to pick up the pieces of your shattered self.

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RED- Personification Pink-Metaphor Yellow- how it applies to my essential

questions

Broken
Commented [JM1]: Gives the impression that the poem
is going to be about someone’s broken life/broken heart.

Do you want to know what broken feels like?


It’s the feeling when your mother tells you she doesn’t care if you’re dead
It’s the dry mouth because you’ve cried double the amount of what you drank today Commented [JM2]: In this paragraph, she explains how it
feels to be broken. Brokenness and depression go hand in
Its trying to keep everyone else out of the sizzling frying pan hand. She explains how she feels like no one cares about
While you fall into the volcano her and that she has little worth because of what her
mother said. A negative effect of depression is how being
It’s walking home, but you don’t have a home anymore, so you walk until your feet sad (crying) can create physical symptoms like dry mouth
give up and a puffy face.
It’s trying to pick up the pieces of your broken heart and losing shards in your hand, Commented [JM3]: Not actually picking up pieces of your
heart and shards in your hand.
While bleeding out
Blood diluted with salty tears
It’s the inability to do anything but think;
You can’t pick up a pen anymore, you can’t write you can hardly smile because there is
a fire burning behind your eyes
A fire hotter than a million suns yet colder than a killer’s heart
It burns people who get too close
So, you’re left, burned out with no one left around you Commented [JM4]: Shows another example of how she
feels alone and hopeless. Like she doesn’t matter to anyone.
Holding the ash of your own heart
Feeling yourself drowning while you watch everyone around you swim
Telling you to ‘just breathe’ Commented [JM5]: ‘just breathe’ can be used as a
technique to help people when they feel overwhelmed by
To hate yourself because too much of anything is bad for you depression or depressing thoughts
But you still know, nobody cares Commented [JM6]: A symptom of how depression can
make you think. Also, a negative effect of depression. She
believes that nobody cares about her which makes her have
a negative mindset.

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