Life Of Pi Figurative Language

Commas are a meant to separate ideas or extend a thought. This extension also represents something that is infinite. This is depicted in Symborzca’s poem Pi. Pi is an infinite number and in the poems, commas are used to depict that thought. The number Pi represents life. People believe it to be infinite. The commas that come in between the numbers, “six five three five at a glance, eight nine by calculation, seven nine or imagination,” , show how the idea is the same, and is extended to make it seem infinite. The commas also represent the pauses. The pauses are needed so the reader takes the time to pause and comprehend what happens in the poem. This also adds onto the message of the poem. There needs to be times where people take the time to stop and comprehend what is happening and to absorb the sensations of life. Life is fleeting, and if people do not take the time to pause and take everything in, them they will not understand the beauty of life, and that people need to enjoy the pleasures of life. People need to live each moment to the fullest, but take pauses throughout to fully
The length of the poem’s stanzas also play into the message or theme of the poem. Similar to punctuation, the structure and the stanzas help determine what the poem is about. Since most of her poems are about life and death, the stanzas match with this theme. Some of her poems have short, quick stanzas, such as Symborzca’s poem Photographs of September 11, while other poems have just one long, continuous stanza with just some punctuation, such as the poems Possibilities and Pi. The long stanzas represent how life may seem long, but the short lines represent how there are small moments that people have to enjoy and take pleasure in. The poems with the short stanzas represent how life is short and fleeting and that is why people need to live life to the fullest and not take any moment for