Rhetorical Devices In The Poem Dirge

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In the poem Dirge, Fearing uses devices such as sarcasm, repetition, and alliteration to make a social commentary on the American Dream. I think the repetition is used as a way to symbolize how every day repeats the same until we retire or die, the so-called never-ending hamster wheel of life. The best example of this is in stanza five: And wow he died as wow he lived,/Going whop to the office and blooie home to sleep and biff got married and bam had children and oof got fired,/Zowie did he live and zowie did he die. He uses sarcasm to poke fun, in a way, at how obsessed people are with money and material goods. The parts where he says, O executive type, O fellow with a will who won’t take no, and O democratic voter in the second stanza, are

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