“Happiness Epidemic”
by David Hernandez

Without any warning, the disease
sweeps across the country
like a traveling circus.

People who were once blue,
who slouched from carrying
a bag of misery over one shoulder

are now clinically cheerful.
Symptoms include kind gestures,
a bouncy stride, a smile

bigger than a slice of cantaloupe.
You pray that you will be infected,
hope a happy germ invades your body

and multiplies, spreading merriment
to all your major organs
like door-to-door Christmas carolers

until the virus finally reaches your heart:
that red house at the end of the block
where your deepest wishes reside,

where a dog howls behind a gate
every time that sorrow
pulls his hearse up the driveway.

Source: Hernandez, David. “Happiness Epidemic.” Casa Poema. Casa Poem, n.d. Web. 6 June 2011.

Which poetic technique is illustrated throughout the entire poem “Happiness Epidemic“?

metonymy
onomatopoeia
conceit
allusion

As a literary device, a conceit is known to be a term that is often used as an extended form of metaphor that aim to compares two or more things the way that they are known to be dissimilar things.

A conceit is known to be a kind of wide and acts to controls a large part of a poem or the full poem just as seen in the entire poem of “Happiness Epidemic as it tells about the evil intentions in the heart of people.

Therefore, based on the above, The poetic technique that is illustrated throughout the entire poem “Happiness Epidemic“ is conceit.

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