“Melancholia” by Kat Strange
The poem “Melancholia” by Kat Strange is a perfect depiction of a girl who views all of her positive and negative moments in her life. At first, it mentions how her youth was a playful time, but then the poem continues with little positivity and a lot of melancholy. When she views her life she is overwhelmed by the amount anguish and grief that she becomes depressed. The author doesn't know whether to feel happy or sad so she's initially in a type of limbo that throughout the poem ends up in sadness. She suffers from multiple incidents like moving houses, losing friends, and many insults. Overall Kat Strange uses personification, repetition, and asyndeton to portray that through all the positivity there will be moments of depression. The first type of figurative language Kat Strange uses is a personification, personification helps the reader understand her heartbreak and gives an idea to how she feels. In”Melancholia” Kat Strange says “Friendship shaken in an earthquake of disappointment” (“Melancholia” 14). The author personifies her friendship to show how …show more content…
The author uses repetition throughout the poem to solidify and reinforce her point about how her misery and heartache develops as adversities pass by. Each time the reader sees this, the reader knows and understands that the author is slowly driving herself to a state of unhappiness and suffering. Structure-wise before every set of melancholia lines there were lines of joy and contentment, and following those lines came lines of somber and gloomy tones until ultimately “Melancholia, melancholia” (“Melancholia”15). The development of lines between positive and negative gives the reader a consensus of how she is developing anguish. Meanwhile, the constant reminder of melancholy digs her a deep dark hole of depression which helps the