For all the Sad Rain
The poem, “For All the Sad Rain,” by Patricia Goedicke is an aggressive wake up call for people. ... Goedicke constructs her poem, “For All the Sad Rain,” to be a positively motivational message that uses many figures of speech to relate to the reader. ... This statement is a hyperbole; she knows that even though some people have stopped her goals from time to time she will overcome them all in the long run. ... The speaker thinks of all the people who sit back, and are scared so badly they hesitant to look forward into the future. ... Goedicke constructs her poem, “For All the Sad Rain,” to be a positively motivational message that uses many figures of speech to relate to the reader. ... Goedicke does a fantastic job of motivating the reader as so he or she can “meet in a field with no fences / The horizon is [ours], and the books and all the opinions / And the water which is wine and the best bed / [We] can possibly think of to lie in”(44-48). The last lines prove to the reader that if you do all you can justly, and not let the facts of life get you down, you will have a great life. Therefore, Goedicke constructs her poem, “For All the Sad Rain,” to be a positively motivational message that uses many figures of speech to relate to the reader.