Running head: POETRY ANALYSIS 1 Castille1 Lauriana Castille Professor Ford English 1302 April 14, 2019 Perfect Imperfections Poets use many symbols in poetry to create a specific meaning for the audience and many poses use literary devices to convey the meanings for example if a poet says, "I am alone" he often refers to the moon in dark night, he just symbolizes for the sake of giving meanings to the poetry. Symbols can be objects, representing the other objects and they can change meanings according to the contexts. Hawthorne, the writer of the poem says that birthmark is used as a symbol. In birthmark Georgiana’s humanity is described which equal to the flaws as Hawthorne. According to him, it is the nature of human being to be mortal and imperfect. He wants to remove the unattractive birthmark from the face of his wife, he actually wants to remove her flaws. He was successful in doing so. There was the singular mark on Georgian’s left cheek, so he describes it very beautifully in the poem. He says that this mark is "deeply interwoven" on Georgiana’s face and it represents that flaws of human beings are related to its character. He says in one line that Georgian,s birthmark is like a "tiny hand" so we can assume that he is representing towards the hand of God who made it perfectly but later he says that is like a hand of the human, so here idea gets complicated but actually, it shows that is the sign of mortality and humanity of Georgiana (Hawthorne, 2015). In this short hot air balloon is used as a symbol with the moon, it shows that the guy dreams about a better life. He says that moon is giving light to the chores, he wants to fly with the balloon and want to start a new life and after his death, the moon gives meaning when it is related to the hot balloon and gives meanings. The balloon also represented the dreams that never came true. It is about freedom from slavery and the poverty. The boy wants to come out of these situations. (Lark Catalpa, 2017). Byatt chooses a forest in which penny and prime roses are present with mystery, and day and night came and opens new chapter of mystery and a girl wanders there and it is a symbol of mystery, she feels traumatic experiences and in this whole story forest is represented as a symbol and symbolizes the forest as a dark place where access is very difficult (Byatt, 2011). All the above three poems use symbols and the center point for them is the freedom and desire of being perfect. Hawthorne wants to vanish the birthmark from his wife because he wants to make it perfect, both in shape and in character and symbolizes the word "birthmark" ion his poem. In wall of fire rising the writer uses a symbol of hot “balloon", he wants to use this balloon to fly away in a place where he can start his new and perfect life, in the thing in the forest writer uses the word "forest" as a symbol and a girl wanders there, forest is a dark place where she wandering around, her experience is traumatic and sh.