My Fear Rab Literary Devices

Everyone is afraid of something. It can range from something miniscule to you or me to something gigantic to someone else. A good percentage of living things are afraid of death, more so of what may cause it than the actual thing. In the poem “My Fear” by Raab, he depicts a reality of fear the emotion. Raab uses vast personification to bring fear to life as he refers to the powerful emotion as “he” or “mister” to produce a more personal feeling. Raab uses fear to show the argument of how we have to respect the things we have no power over. He wants us to know how alive and well fear is and it's power it can hold on us as it lives inside each of us. He referred to fear as “Mr. Fear” in stanza two as a way of showing the respect he has for
the compelling emotion. Although he does not want fear to exist, he acknowledges the power it has by giving it a title of “Mr Fear”. Raab gives fear it's own emotions as if he wants it to feel remorse for causing him and others unfathomable torment.
The poem talks about dreams and the possession fear has of it. Nightmares is symbolic to the poem as a way to show how powerful fear is. The horrible illusions are produced from the tainting of Mr. Fear into our peaceful slumbers. Some of our biggest fears seem to come alive as we dream even as we listen to the most pleasing sounds. In stanza six, Raab asks fear if his nightmare can be small and less frightening, like before meeting fear. Raab does an excellent job in learning how to live with fear because he know it is in him as it is in everyone and everything. He does not try to change it but instead accepts it ways as to be apart of him. He titles the poem “My Fear” instead of Fear itself because he want to make us understand that not everyone is alike and not everyone has the same fears. Mr Fear is THE fear as his formal title therefore, it is him who scares the poet because he has the power to inflict other fears upon him.