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She's Leaving Home Analysis

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The poem “She’s Leaving Home” is about a girl leaving home to obtain freedom she desires. From this, the girl 's parents go through many different emotions, varying throughout the poem.The author writes the poem in third-person using irony, juxtaposition, mood, and tone to illustrate the perspective of the emotion that the daughter and her parents felt. In the first stanza, the girl runs away from home, but before sneaking out, she leaves a note for her parents. The girl sneaks out “by silently closing her bedroom door” in the “morning at five o’clock”. In the process, she leaves a note because she does not have the confidence to speak to her parents face-to-face. As she leaves five in the morning, it portrays the child being passive aggressive. …show more content…

The parents are upset and they believe the child is wasting everything that they gave. For the parents, they are upset how the child is being ungrateful because they “(gave her everything money could buy)” and everything that she ever could need. The parents believe that it is the child’s fault and that the parents did nothing wrong. In reality, the parents failed to realize that money couldn’t buy everything. Money couldn’t buy the child freedom, fun, and love. The author uses juxtaposition to show two different perspectives: the child and the parents. Instead of making an effort to find their child, the parents just let the child be and lets her go by saying “(bye …show more content…

Irony is used to portray the perspective of both the child and the parents. To depict the parents perspective they say “we never thought about ourselves” when in the end, that is all the child’s parents did. From this, the parents fail to realize that the reason she left home was that she has always been alone. In the quote, “Never thought about themselves”, is incorrect because the fact is that the parents only thought about themselves. In the poem, it says “She’s….after living alone”, which means the child felt that she was alone even though she was living with her parents. The parents weren’t able to realize how the child felt even though they were living in the same

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