In Burning a Book, Stafford conveys in the poem a theme where taking the risks in our lives is what the best choice is. Stafford's proves that taking risks is the best choice in eliminating censorship. He does this by using literary device to emphasize a tone of disappointment towards it. Stafford uses many literary language which causes him to develop the meaning on what the meaning of books mean. The very first stanza helps with describing what books are like and what they represent and mean in our world. In the next stanza, Stafford uses a metaphor to emphasis the negative aspects in our society and how they are like the books being burned, “more disturbing than book ashes are whole libraries that no one got around to writing----desolate towns, miles of unthought in cities, and the terrorized countryside where wild dogs.” (Stafford) Additionally in the very last stanza, “so I’ve burned books. …show more content…
Sometimes as well not sharing the negative things going around in your surrounding has a bigger impact than when books are burned. This might be because you are not helping for this to be heard by others and help it to be stopped. Censorship does come to play in this poem in how there are people like the people who are in control on power in our society, this is represented in the symbolism Stafford uses about “the terrorized countryside where wild dogs own anything that moves.” Lastly, the personification in “ignorance can dance in the absence of fire” is still following up on how not sharing ideas causes for ignorance to make fun of the fear people might have in