Everyone comes to a point in their life where they realize they do not want to be alone. This is the situation in the poem "To His Own Beloved Self..." by Vladimir Mayakovsky. The author is alone, and by the use of figurative language, mood, and random sound, he conveys the moment he is at: he wants someone special in his life. In this analysis, I will be discussing my view on why this is a very well-represented poem on loneliness.

Many times, authors use figurative language in a poem to make it more interesting, and to meet the reader at a more personal level. In "To HIs Own...", Mayakovsky uses a lot of personification. "As quiet as thunder, how I'd wail and whine!" Here, the author is giving thunder the quality of being able to whine and complain. "....build up the earth's shivering bosom." The earth has a shivering bosom in this example. A last example is, "the comets, distressed, would wring their hands," and when the comets are distressed, they use their hands to express

Can one live without love? Is love different to each person in that it can be big or small, or is it something we cannot even fathom? My analysis has shown that Vladimir Mayakovsky did not believe love was small in any aspect. He conveyed this belief by using different language techniques, making the reader feel his pain through which he wrote it, and by writing the poem as his thoughts came, confused and random. Love is only what one makes of it, so when one does not have it, he or she may feel helpless, as Vladimir Mayakovsky did.

When I read "To His Own..." for the first time, I found myself feeling heavy-hearted. That was the mood of the poem. The mood played a huge part in the poem. "The gold of all Californias isn't enough for my desires' riotous horde." "But where's someone like me to dock?" "On I'll pass, dragging my huge love behind me." "I, so big and so no one needed?" All these phrases set the mood. They make the reader feel the author's pain-longing, hopelessness, not wanted. The mood sets the feeling of what the author is saying: one feels helpless when he/she cannot

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