Many red devils...mine?

Many red devils. . . by Stephen Crane Many red devils ran from my heart And out upon the page. They were so tiny The pen could smash them. And many struggled in the ink. It was strange To write in this red muchk Of things from my heart. This poem by Stephen Crane was quite interesting and very vivid. I like that the poem is one stanza. I think that the author did this because the poem is told like a story and a story doesnt really require stanzas because it is told in one linear direction and all at once. The way that the author broke up the one stanza was also very interesting. The poem was broken up by periods and breakings in lines. The author did this in order to emphasize certain lines. For instance, in the first line there is a break in between "heart and "and," and this was used to emphasize both lines which described the situation: the fact that there was little devils and that they were out on the author's page. This technique is used throughout the poem in order to emphasize different points of discription just like a person would pause inbetween different sections of a discriptive section of a story in order to highlight key points. Now lets look at interpreting the poem, or how i interpret it. From what i can gather it seems like the little red devils are the demons that we all deal with and the fact that they are out on the page means that the way he deals with his demons is by writing. Another part of the poem that supports this is when Crane states that " they were so tiny the pen could crush them." This describes the destruction of his demons or problems through his writing. Then he goes to describe that it was strange to write in the red much that was the mixture of the devils blood and his ink because it was writing of things of his heart. Maybe this is to show that it is hard to put your problems out there and try to deal with them and that is why it is so hard to write in the "red muck," that is our raw nature.