THe poem Italy by John Greenleaf Whittier was a pretty good poem to analyze. The literal anysis was that the poem was about war and how in the end there would be no war because God would show us the promised land and we could lay down our arms to let them rust. But untill then it will be our fate to fight and kill each other over pointless squabbles. Whittier used several different poetic devices, the coolest one was onomonopeea. Onomonopeea is when the author uses several words in a row that sound gthe same in order to provide emphasis on that idea and stuff, He also used imagery pretty well but not as good as say Longfellow did or anything like that. Lastly the figurative meaning of the peom in my own opinion was that the poem stood for how everyone hopes that one day war will end and everyone can be happy together.
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