Essays on Exits

The poem is a metaphor for the expectations and reality of life in America. The poem transforms ideas as it progresses going from a moviegoer to a family struggling with immigrating to the states, to the expectations of women in America. This is all greatly helped by three main poetic elements, metaphor, repetition, and enjambment. “Exits” employed the use of repetition to add to the impact of the entire poem, which in its simplest form is a metaphor for how pristine…...