Dorianne Laux has showed all elements of poetry like the theme, tone, imagery, and even the persona. “Fast Gas” has as theme that consists of talking about love. In this poem, she explains how she falls in love with whoever her future man is. The way that she explains is that she is low-keyed falling in love with whoever will be her future boyfriend. The evidence that proves this is when the author says “In a few weeks, I would fall, for the first time, in love, that man waiting patiently in my future like a red leaf on the sidewalk, the kind of beauty that asks to be noticed (Laux).” So the theme is basically falling in love for the first time, but in the case, something that don’t quite exist yet.
The tone that Laux was directed to was the girl on a typical day. The tone for this poem was the right choice. The author made it seem like the girl was eager to find love for her to find the right man for her, that she desired. The way the author approached the tones was calm, relaxing, and acting as if it was a normal day, at the gas station. But towards the end of the poem
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The way that the author explains at the beginning what she had on and how she was so ready to pump the gas. Laux explains how the girl in the poem gets splashed by gas that came out of the pump because of the air bubble that was made in the tank. The image of her on the floating grey cloud to find was love was pretty visible. This poem definitely expressed a lot of imagery.
The persona of the poem “Fast Gas”, the author talked through the poem using a girl that expressed her feelings on meeting the right one day. Love is as critical for your mind and body as oxygen (McGrath, 2002). So the main character for this poem is the girl that works and volunteers to pump gas, but is also the type of girl that can get dirty with guys and handle things they know how to handle. The character seems a little tomboyish by the way she handle cars and
The poem is written in the style of free verse. The poet chooses not to separate the poem into stanzas, but only by punctuation. There is no rhyme scheme or individual rhyme present in the poem. The poems structure creates a personal feel for the reader. The reader can personally experience what the narrator is feeling while she experiences stereotyping.
There are multiple examples of visual imagery in this poem. An example of a simile is “curled like a possum within the hollow trunk”. The effect this has is the way it creates an image for the reader to see how the man is sleeping. An example of personification is, “yet both belonged to the bush, and now are one”. The result this has is how it creates an emotion for the reader to feel
...es her. The imageries of pink Mustang signifies her social class, while “Road” indicates her location as nowhere within a community. The commodification of her body means it can be touched in ways derogatory to her dignity whether she likes it or not because it is a saleable commodity that doesn’t belong to her. Her silver painted nipples identifies silver coins. Silver coins represent monetary value put on her body. Silver painted nipples also mean the attractive way in which a product is packaged. The poem also depicts the defiance of women against how she has been treated. She identifies man as the one that kisses away himself piece by piece till the last coin is spent. However, she cannot change the reality of her location, and temporal placement.
This poem helps us to recognize and appreciate beauty through its dream sequence and symbolism. The poem opens with the Dreamer describing this
The verbose use of imagery in this poem is really what makes everything flow in this poem. As this poem is written in open form, the imagery of this writing is what makes this poem poetic and stand out to you. Marisa de los Santos begins her poem with “Its here in a student’s journal, a blue confession in smudged, erasable ink: ‘I can’t stop hoping/ I’ll wake up, suddenly beautiful’” (1-3). Even from the first lines of this story you can already picture this young girl sitting at her desk, doodling on her college ruled paper. It automatically hooks you into the poem, delving deeper and deeper as she goes along. She entices you into reading more as she writes, daring you to imagine the most perfect woman in the world, “cobalt-eyed, hair puddling/ like cognac,” (5-6). This may not be the ideal image of every person, but from the inten...
The poem is notable for Hayden's characteristically accurate evocation of imagery. Just like his other poems, Hayden’s imagery in this poem is very vivid. The reader is able to imagine or see these images in their inner minds. Thus, the diver “sank through easeful/azure/swiftly descended/free falling, weightless/plunged” he described the diver’s carefree attitude and relaxed attitude as he dove into the sea. Thrilled and enchanted by what he sees in the wrecked ship, he lingers for more than intended. When he was brought to the reality of the danger he was in, he, “...in languid/frenzy strove/began the measured
The title of this poem makes us think that this is going to be a love story with him and a significant other. But these expectations are not fulfilled by the text starting in the introductory epigraph. The title is completely ironic because this is not a “love song”, yet this story is about a depressed, lonely and weak man. The title makes us think that this poem is going to be a serious love song about J. Alfred Prufrock, but instead it is more of a fake love song. From the third line of the poem he shows a man who is unable to communicate, much less sing, “love songs” to anyone.
My first and immediate explanation for the poem was an address from one lover to a loved one, where distance became a factor in their relationship. The lover has it far worse than the desired partner and the solitude builds nothing but longing for this person at a time when his love is the greatest. He says " What have I to say to you when we shall meet?... I am alone" with my head knocked against the sky”. He further asks, “How can I tell if I shall ever love you again as I do now?” There is uncertainty because he is wondering over the next encounter with his loved one. He says, “I lie here thinking of you” and is compelling when he wants the loved one to see him in the 5th stanza and what love is doing to his state of mind. He is hopeless and expresses it by asking questions he is unsure of, conveying his troubled state. Williams enforces imagery along with sound effects to demonstrate the despair of the man in a realm that is almost dreamlike with purple skies,spoiled colors, and birds. Stating he is alone and that his head collides with the sky may underline the man’s confusion. He also uses imagery in the “stain of love as it eats into the leaves”, and saffron horned branches, vivid and easy-to-imagine images that captivate the reader. The line stating “a smooth purple sky” and this stain which is “spoiling the colours of the whole world” easily formulate a very distinct picture. Through consonance words like “eats” and “smears with saffron” become fiercer in the eyes of this lover as they cancel out a “smooth sky”.
The first literary device that can be found throughout the poem is couplet, which is when two lines in a stanza rhyme successfully. For instance, lines 1-2 state, “At midnight, in the month of June / I stand beneath the mystic moon.” This is evidence that couplet is being used as both June and moon rhyme, which can suggest that these details are important, thus leading the reader to become aware of the speaker’s thoughts and actions. Another example of this device can be found in lines 16-17, “All Beauty sleeps!—and lo! where lies / (Her casement open to the skies).” These lines not only successfully rhyme, but they also describe a woman who
This poem does not have a specific rhyme scheme, or really a poetic meter. It is an open poem, but the readers can see throughout the poem that this poem is being spoken by a women with high diction. The tone of the poem would be cheery for the readers because the speaker is being lively on how she looks at death. Some imagery that is told in this poem is when the poet is telling the reader about what girl is wearing. You can mentally see the way the clothes she wears but you can also feel the way they are.
Stanzas one and two of the poem are full of imagery. The first stanza sets the scene for the poem “in a kingdom by the sea” (Poe 609) which makes you feel as if the story is going to have a “romantic” (Overview) feel to it. Then Annabel Lee comes into the story with “no other thought than to love and be loved by me” (Poe 609); This sentence is full of imagery in the sense that it makes you feel the immense capacity of love Annabel Lee had for the speaker if that was her only thought. In the second stanza the imagery takes a turn that shifts from loving and inviting to pain; The love between Annabel and the speaker was so strong that
Along with the imagery we get from the title, there is a lot of imagery within this poem. Let us start with the first three lines:
There are many themes shown throughout this poem. Love seems to be reoccurring throughout this entire piece, but, “love” is not the right term to describe the relationship between the lovers. Lust may be a better representation of the attraction. It is apparent that when Gordon says “In secret we met” (Gordon, Line.25) revealing a superficial relationship open to the public. Affairs are a game of risk and reward. Television has based certain TV series and episode
Throughout the entire poem Shel Silverstein uses the innocence of the little girl to create a vast amount of imagery so that the reader can understand right away what kind of person is talking in the poem and what state of mind she is. Mary Keleshian from GlemMagazine stated that in imagery it is “To describe everything is to supply a photograph in words.” This would mean that the way Silverstein add all the the imagery was done precisely and effort. The readers see all the representation of imagery in their head with all the “symptoms” she describes in the poem. The imagery also gives the reader an understanding of how the innocence shows immediately from how the girl describes all sorts of conditions she has so she won't have to go to attend school. One of the many examples of Imagery shown in the poem would be when “Sad little peggy Ann” says “ I've counted sixteen chicken pox and there's one more- that's seventeen, and don't you think my face looks green?” How the little girl describes how her face looks green gives the reader an image of a sort of cartoon sick person whose face is green. Which rubs off a little innocence to even the reader because of how well done the imagery is made. Michael Smathers from WiseGeek states that “The primary function of imagery in literature is to bring a lifelike quality to scenery, people, or circumstances.” Silverstein creates the sort of lifelike
“The Voice of the Rain” by Walt Whitman and “The Grass so little has to