Dear Heart, Why Will you Use Me so?
This poem describes happiness, beauty, sadness and a broken heart. The poet James Joyce wrote this poem to show that the heart can play tricks. It can demonstrate happiness or sadness, so many feelings and mixed emotions are thrown into the poem, making this poem more and more interesting. The poem’s mood starts from beautiful then it drops down to brokenness and sadness. In “Dear Heart, Why will you Use Me so?” James Joyce uses symbolism and personification in order to entrege the reader to continue reading the poem.
Joyce uses personification to give the main character’s body parts of the poem more meaning than they seem. In the first line of the second paragraph,” Through the clear mirrors of your eyes”. Joyce compares the two objects to give the reader a visual image in order to create how the character’s eyes were so clear they looked like mirrors.
James Joyce uses symbolism to give the heart of the story a stronger and repeated meaning thought the poem. In the first line of the first paragraph and the last line of the third paragraph “Dear Heart, Why will you Use Me so?”, is repeated to see the change that symbolizes the start from beautiful and then transforms at the end to sadness and shattering. This image gives the heart human characteristics to show the meaning that the heart is hurting and using the character in the poem demonstrates this.
In the poem “Dear Heart, Why will you use me so?” by James Joyce, symbolism and personification is used in order to intrigue the reader to continue reading. Symbolism gives the parts of the body that James Joyce describes as the heart portraying one that is being hurt rather than a heart as a beautiful image. Also personification gives a further look into the poem as it describes and gives a closer feel to the heart. Now after the reader reads this, one will be able to look back at the poem and now be able to identify and begin to understand all the symbols and personification that James Joyce provides in his poetry