Many+Red+Devils+Ran+From+My+Heart

I interpreted this poem like this: The red devils from his heat are his feelings that he is writing down on paper. It says, "Many sturggles in the ink," this is refering to the red devils and means it was hard for him to write down his feelings and what his heart felt. I think I know what Stephan Crane means by it being hard to write down things that you are so pasionate about. It is like you know what you want to say, but you do not kow how to put it all into words. That is why I try to keep a diary. I have had one for about three years now. Everyday or every other day I will write down feelings towards people, things I go through, and so on. I do this so things do not build up inside of me until I burst! For me, writing down my feelings helps me to realize what is all going on in my life and how I can change and/or prevent some things from happening. 1205376790KCa

I also concur with the previous statement in the fact that it's hard to write down feelings. Feelings like happiness, sorrow, love, and maybe even things like wanting are all some examples that are very hard to express on just a peice of paper. So it must have been a very tough time even trying to write down what his heart was saying. I couldnt imagine doing that. There are just too many feelings that we have in our heart. I also would say that feelings are like ideas. For example try writing about life. There may be a chance that you will be able to get some things down, but you are allways going to have the feeling that what you wrote down isn't everything you think about life. 1205377981

Heres what I think how the poem makes sense, Many red devils ran from my heart, means that he had emotions of hatred, evil, revenge, unforgiveness, uncaring, greedy, individualism. All these characteristics can poison his soul.They were so tiny.The pen could mash them. He's stating that there were many tiny particles of evil statements in his pages that he was writing in. He wanted to change that and try to remove those things from existence by writing over them with something that gives him the impression that he is changed and inside that he is not evil. However that does not change. Once you write something that you know that it's coming form your heart, you can't change that."It was strange" "To write in this red muck" "Of things from my heart." He feels strange because even though he's trying to make himself feel better by overwriting his evil mistakes on paper, but once the guy feels bad and evil on the inside, there isn't a way to go back.1205456993