Allusions And Metaphors

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A few years ago I thought of myself as a poor writer, I look back to my old essays and I laugh at myself, and although I have improved there is one thing that as a writer have never been able to stand. Poems. Mental torture for some or simply poems for others, I hate them for their complexibility. If poems were simple and to the point, it would be great, but writers always feel obligated to make allusions and metaphors, one word in a poem can contain multiple meanings. In middle school we had a semester-long project, we were supposed to write several poems and then read one of them to the class. As any other I was nervous and when my turn came I did the opposite to a good job. I tried to be as deep and detailed as the other poems that we had

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