Give an inanimate object the ability to walk. Compare an idea with an image. Exaggerating a concept. Each person has a different poetic style, and each poetic style uses different poetic techniques: personification, simile, hyperbole, imagery, or irony. Zora Neale Hurston reveals her unique poetic style through Their Eyes Were Watching God, the story of Janie Crawford and her journey to find true, unconditional love. Her journey begins with an arranged marriage to Logan Killicks, a physically unattractive man with a sizable house, with an elopement with Joe Starks, a self-centered, power-hungry leader, and ends with Tea Cake, the man who he loves Janie, despite the consequences. that result from marrying an older, wealthier woman. Janie's story breathes with ambiguous figurative language, provocative imagery, and powerful diction. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston expresses her unique poetic style through the poetic techniques she uses. Janie's return to Eatonville prompts the townspeople to spitefully gossip about the reason for her return. Pheoby remains the only person who refrains from building wild rumors about Janie. Janie tells her story to Pheoby in hopes that the lesson the story brings will enlighten her—and those to whom Pheoby decides to repeat the story—about how marrying for love brings fulfillment and marrying for money brings disappointment. Before Janie begins her story, she contemplates her life and sees it “as a great leafy tree with things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone” (8). He sees “dawn and destiny [ . . . ] among the branches” (8). Hurston's metaphor shows Janie's belief that the vast experiences within her are comparable to the number of leaves on a tree, revealing... the middle of the paper... happiness. His unwavering and magnificent impact on her life eradicates the darkness from her memories and leaves her with an image of him brighter than the sun. Despite Tea Cake's tragic death, Janie awakens him through her memories and experiences emotional fulfillment. Hurston's poetic style becomes unique when he uses irony to teach a lesson about God, personification to give between a bee and a flower a passionate and breathtaking relationship, and hyperbolic language to place a city in the sky. His frequent uses of poetic techniques provide connections to Janie's thoughts and feelings, and his poetic style provides an understanding of the message Hurston illustrates through Janie's journey. Hurston's descriptive, eloquent, and powerful diction brings Janie's story to life: she brings beauty to ordinary situations and emphasizes the wisdom Janie possesses...