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Dan Padilla's Faith

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As Dan Padilla, a singer, once said, “People die and the world keeps turning.” Seibles shows this in his poem, Faith, by using tone, metaphor, and free verse to portray the theme of how the world doesn’t stop--on the grand scale of things, or even just everyday actions. Destruction or not, the world is going to keep turning. The poet utilizes many metaphors in his writing to convey the theme. One of the first, and best metaphors he used was comparing war to a movie: “This is the same movie/Playing all over/The world/Starring everybody/Who ends up where the action/Is” (7-11). This has the effect of making war seem less dramatic, or awful, which lends into the theme in the way that movies are always playing, whether it be a holiday or something

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