In 300 words or less, identify five examples of figurative language from anne sexton’s ”young” and/or audre lorde’s “hanging fire” and explain what they contribute to the poem(s).

I chose Young by Anne Sexton.

Hyperbole 
→ A thousand doors ago
→ and probably a million leaves

Personification
→ clover wrinkling over me
→ the wise stars bedding over me
→ yellow heat running out

metaphor: 
→ my mother's window
 a funnel of yellow heat running out,
→ my father's window, half shut,
an eye where sleepers pass,

simile:
→ and the boards of the house
were smooth and white as wax

These figurative language creates beautiful images that makes the poem come alive and help the readers envision what the author is saying. 

First person bc it uses the word i