Happy Thought by Robert Louis Stevenson
The world is so full of a number of things,
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Happy Thought." Poemhunter.com. Poem Hunter, n.d. Web. 07 May 2015. <http://www.poemhunter.com/poems/happiness/page- /32763/>.
The world is so full of a number of things,
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Happy Thought." Poemhunter.com. Poem Hunter, n.d. Web. 07 May 2015. <http://www.poemhunter.com/poems/happiness/page- /32763/>.
Sunshine and Cloudy Days by Janai Skilles
My happiness is like the sun,
Not always visible, but always there.
Sometimes obscured by a cloudy day,
But summer draws it out again.
Skiles, Janai. "Sunshine and Cloudy Days." Janaipoetry.blogspot.com. Janai Poetry, n.d. Web. 07 May 2015. <http://janaipoetry.blogspot.com.tr/p/similes-and-short-poems.html>.
My happiness is like the sun,
Not always visible, but always there.
Sometimes obscured by a cloudy day,
But summer draws it out again.
Skiles, Janai. "Sunshine and Cloudy Days." Janaipoetry.blogspot.com. Janai Poetry, n.d. Web. 07 May 2015. <http://janaipoetry.blogspot.com.tr/p/similes-and-short-poems.html>.
Happiness
Can only be found
If you search for it
Like a vicious blood hound
Happiness
Is just like love
Just to get it
You will push and shove
Happiness
Is just a door
You open it up
And you just want more
Happiness
Grows like trees
It gets really big
But dies in a breeze
Happiness
Is what I could never find
So I went to the dark
To sit and hide
Nissen, Joey. "Maze Of Happiness." Poemhunter.com. Poem Hunter, n.d. Web. 08 May 2015. <http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/maze-of-happiness/>.
Similes have a major role in poetry and many poets use them in their poems to reveal the theme in their poems. “Happy Thought”, “Sunshine and Cloudy Days” and “Maze of Happiness” are some examples of poems that use simile. “Happy Thought” is short but meaningful poem by Robert Louis Stevenson that includes his thoughts about finding happiness. “Sunshine and Cloudy Days” by Janai Skiles is about happiness and how it gets lost sometimes. “Maze of Happiness” by Joey Nissen is about working hard for happiness. All of these poems use similes to connect happiness to bigger meanings and they reveal different ideas about happiness.
The simile in “Happy Thought” reveals the idea of being too happy with the many things around us. As the speaker says, “The world is so full of a number of things, / I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.” he compares the normal people to kings. The simile of kings, symbolizes the big happiness we can get and with comparing kings to people, the speaker wants people to pay attention to the numerous things that contain happiness around them. If people get happiness from those numerous things they can be very happy like kings, as the speaker says. Unlike “Happy Thought”, the poem “Sunshine and Cloudy Days” reveals the theme of finding happiness and not losing our hope for it. When the speaker says, “My happiness is like the sun, / Not always visible, but always there.” he uses sun as a simile for happiness. He uses sun to compare with happiness, because sun gets lost and after cloudy days and nights it comes out. So with this simile, Janai Skiles wanted to say that happiness can get lost sometimes, by giving example from sun and wanted us to wait for happiness and not lose our hope. Happiness will surely come out after bad days, like the sun. In contrast to the two other poems, the last poem, “Maze of Happiness” by Joey Nissen, uses simile to reveal the idea of working hard for happiness. As the speaker says, “Happiness / Can only be found / If you search for it / Like a vicious blood hound.” he compares people that are searching for happiness to bloodhounds. He used the simile of vicious blood hound, because bloodhounds want their hunt more than everything else and they work hard for it by running after them. So with this simile of bloodhounds, the speaker wanted people to work hard for happiness and strongly wants to have it like how bloodhounds want their victim.
To conclude, the poems “Happy Thought”, “Sunshine and Cloudy Days” and “Maze of Happiness” used similes to reveal ideas of happiness. “Happy Thought” wanted people to get happiness from the numerous things around us, while “Sunshine and Cloudy Days” wanted people not to lose hope on our way to happiness with its simile. “Maze of Happiness” wanted us to want and search happiness like bloodhounds search for their victims. So the poems used similes to reveal the theme of happiness by comparing it to larger meanings and poets revealed different ideas from them about happiness.
Similes have a major role in poetry and many poets use them in their poems to reveal the theme in their poems. “Happy Thought”, “Sunshine and Cloudy Days” and “Maze of Happiness” are some examples of poems that use simile. “Happy Thought” is short but meaningful poem by Robert Louis Stevenson that includes his thoughts about finding happiness. “Sunshine and Cloudy Days” by Janai Skiles is about happiness and how it gets lost sometimes. “Maze of Happiness” by Joey Nissen is about working hard for happiness. All of these poems use similes to connect happiness to bigger meanings and they reveal different ideas about happiness.
The simile in “Happy Thought” reveals the idea of being too happy with the many things around us. As the speaker says, “The world is so full of a number of things, / I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.” he compares the normal people to kings. The simile of kings, symbolizes the big happiness we can get and with comparing kings to people, the speaker wants people to pay attention to the numerous things that contain happiness around them. If people get happiness from those numerous things they can be very happy like kings, as the speaker says. Unlike “Happy Thought”, the poem “Sunshine and Cloudy Days” reveals the theme of finding happiness and not losing our hope for it. When the speaker says, “My happiness is like the sun, / Not always visible, but always there.” he uses sun as a simile for happiness. He uses sun to compare with happiness, because sun gets lost and after cloudy days and nights it comes out. So with this simile, Janai Skiles wanted to say that happiness can get lost sometimes, by giving example from sun and wanted us to wait for happiness and not lose our hope. Happiness will surely come out after bad days, like the sun. In contrast to the two other poems, the last poem, “Maze of Happiness” by Joey Nissen, uses simile to reveal the idea of working hard for happiness. As the speaker says, “Happiness / Can only be found / If you search for it / Like a vicious blood hound.” he compares people that are searching for happiness to bloodhounds. He used the simile of vicious blood hound, because bloodhounds want their hunt more than everything else and they work hard for it by running after them. So with this simile of bloodhounds, the speaker wanted people to work hard for happiness and strongly wants to have it like how bloodhounds want their victim.
To conclude, the poems “Happy Thought”, “Sunshine and Cloudy Days” and “Maze of Happiness” used similes to reveal ideas of happiness. “Happy Thought” wanted people to get happiness from the numerous things around us, while “Sunshine and Cloudy Days” wanted people not to lose hope on our way to happiness with its simile. “Maze of Happiness” wanted us to want and search happiness like bloodhounds search for their victims. So the poems used similes to reveal the theme of happiness by comparing it to larger meanings and poets revealed different ideas from them about happiness.