Sometimes a person's love for something can be so strong it can overcome anything. Hate, lust, and even fear can all be examples of this. In most cases, an author of a poem will create it to express his love for something. Many times the author uses different figures of speech to enhance that feeling in the reader such as personification, illiteration, and imagry. The poem "I Have a Rendevous with Death" by Alan Seegar …showed first 75 words of 433 total…

…showed last 75 words of 433 total…to my pledged word is true, I shall not fail that rendezvous." Here he tells us that no matter what the consequences may be, he is going to keep his promise to meet death. Although Seegar tells his readers he may have some hope of coming home alive saying "It may be I shall pass him still." the reader can conclude from the date of his death, he did indeed die fighting for his country.