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Analysis of “In Flames”, written by Feridun Duzagac.

Considering the title, “In Flames”, an intelligent reader imagine the poem will be about fire and war or in their figurative senses, which are inner conflict, passions and love.

The lyric consists of four stanzas, written in free verse; this choice refers to the freedom of thoughts and to write straight away.

The first stanza is an introduction to the lyrical-voice’s feelings: it thinks to be weak, to be subjugated by a “glance”; the anaphora of the letter “i” helps to underline the lines’ intimacy, as if the lyric were more than simple words: it seems to be like a confession.

A reader can also confirm the thesis made before, that is the poem is about feelings. The word “maybe” joins the first stanza to the following one and at the same time highlights the precariousness of the speech.

The second stanza, made up by two lines, includes two if-clauses, which symbolise possibilities; the sentences start always with the pronoun “we”: the lyrical voice hope to gather with his loved person.

The third stanza consists of a line and two exclamations; it is the main stanza of the lyric, because it tells the more central feeling of the lyrical voice: he is burning inside him, it is a truly sentence; the pain is underlined by the exclamation marks. There is assonance of the vocal “i”, like the consonance of “m” in the first stanza: they both add to meaning the written text's sense of uniqueness.

The fourth and last stanza is made by twelve lines, so it represents the biggest part of the lyric. In its lines, the writer speaks to “you” for the first time directly. It is the stanza of the acceptation and the excess of the problems: begins with a rhetoric question, which gives to the poem hope, after some sad lines; the fourth and fifth lines of the stanza advise this thesis: nobody leaves himself to others, if he is not sure in what is doing. At the end the lyrical voice returns to the previous feeling of union, with the imperative “take me”, which means “accept me”, “save me from fire”.

The main common letter in the stanza is “o”, which is used with strong consonants: it reminds to the heaviness of the words told