The eighth stanza of Robert Lowell's poem "For the Union Dead" begins: "The monument sticks like a fishbone / in the city's throat." The two poetic devices used in these lines from the poem are
hyperbole and simile
metaphor and imagery
imagery and hyperbole
simile and personification

D. Simile and Personification

Explanation:

Simile: like or as

"The monument sticks LIKE a fishbone"

Personification: Human like charecteristic

"in the  city's throat."

subject: why anyone can be a genius.

occasion: moving forward in life.

audience: average person

purpose: to push you further in life

speaker: many famous geniuses.

here is the poem:

here is thy, and here is thee, genius is for what he can be.

poem is a matter of rhyme, but like ben frank said, life is a matter of time.

we have great inventors such as thomas edison, who said, "genius is one percent inspiration and 99% perspiration." no, no perspiration as what comes from your skeleton.

we have great minds, from places of all kinds, such as yu kaw la chi tie, (now im switching languages because yu kaw was japanese.)

てちハラスイヒイス, てちラスイヒイス

てちのちみスイヒイス.

you are a genius, well not yet, but you are capable, and that is a bet.