“Non Everlasting” by Josephine B was very interesting. Barimah stressed her words by Capitalizing the whole word or the first letter no matter where it appeared in the poem. She capitalized “Hope” in line 19 and “Sleep” as well as “Death” in the last line to make emphasis and show how important those words were in the poem. She capitalized the first letters of some words to also show emphasis. Example , in line 8, she capitalizes , “alluring, superb and proliferating. She uses personification in line 16 to express how the tree hears like a human being. She makes “HOPE” Stand on its own in line 19 to show the main idea of the poem.
She breaks the poem into stanzas to slow the reader and also to give the reader the idea of the poem details as he or she reads.