A Very Simple Wish

A Very Simple Wish
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Giovanni uses simile, repetition and many different expressions to covey the motif of "want" to capture the tone of reflective and fanciful. As the reader, we guess that Giovanni is the speaker, since it is describing what she personally wants. Giovanni's reflective tone highlights the poem as Giovanni illustrating her innermost thoughts and emotion when she introduces the poem with the first stanza. The beginning of the first stanza is, "i want to write an image, like a log-cabin quilt pattern and stretch it across all the lonely people who just don't fit in." Giovanni starts the poem with the motif of "want" and a simile to capture that she wants to create a picture or different image as dynamic as a quilt. Like a quilt and in life, we have panels that capture a different experience. Giovanni also declares that the misfits will be apart of her quit, alluding to the fact that the lonely people are never included in America. Giovanni's fanciful tone highlights the poem as Giovanni using her imagination to express her want for diversity, equality and peace. She uses the repetition of the phrase "if i do that", to end with what she described she would do to save the world in her perception. Giovanni must importantly describes in the fourth stanza that it is easier to touch by fighting or in violence than it is to use your touch for loving and respecting other people. In her perception, she wants to create a stew of diversity. With the leftover stew, she could probably end world hunger. Giovanni closely ends the poem with "i want to make a quilt of all the patches and find one one pole to lift it up". Giovanni still uses the motif of "want" to want to make a quilt that creates the picture and image of the strength of her people. She ends the poem with"want to play". Giovanni leaves the reader with an open-ended question. She asks the reader if they would like to join the "game" that is being played. The "game" can interpreted in different ways. In this case, the reader would interpret that Giovanni has an idealist mind to build a new world. She, in the end is asking the reader if they would like to join her movement into innovation.