Recovery

A last love,
proper in conclusion,
should snip the wings
forbidding further flight.
But I, now,
reft of that confusion,
am lifted up
and speeding toward the light.
- Maya Angelou

My reaction to this poem was I felt that this poem is impowering because it is talking about someone who has just gotten out of a relationship and at first it was hard to move on but then they start to recover slowly until they had become completely over that person. It is impowering because it gives people, who have just gotten over a relationship, hope to know that one day they will get over that person and recover completely.The poetic device used here is symbolism. Symbolism was in this poem because the snipped wings were symbolizing the depression you have when you first get out of the relationship with your love and the light is symbolizing
the sign of getting over that relationship. The Rhyme scheme is: A B C D E A F D The theme of this poem is that things will get better when given the time to have a chance to heal.