Figurative Language is a device that authors use to aid readers in determining what is occurring in a written piece such as through similes, metaphors or hyperboles so if its more of informative piece there would be no use in using figurative language.
The meaning of the poem shows a word "independence" which is opposite to our feelings... she used the symbol "hero" to describe what there is in people's inside(heart).
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