Searching

In his poem “Fog”, Carl Sandburg uses enjambment and personification to create the effect of fog. He makes it seem more real by saying “it sits looking” and “comes on little cat feet”. The poem has a nonchalant tone to emphasize again, how the fog casually passes by. Diction serves the same purpose. The use of casual words help to create the fog-like feeling.

In the poem “Constantly Risking Absurdity” Ferlinghetti juxtaposes a poet and an acrobat. Time imagery along with a nonchalant but yet exciting tone manages to represent the similarities between both. When he states “the poet like an acrobat”…. “Paces his way to the other side of day” he means that as time passes they both learn and finally get to the place close to perfection. The lack of punctuation and structure of the poem emphasize what the author is trying to transmit. The lines are in disorder as if they were swaging, just like the acrobat does on his ropes. And the lack of punctuation show the continuation and flow.

The poem In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound has an optimistic tone that demonstrates the unexpected beauty of nature in the city. There is an analogy since Pound compares nature to the city life while juxtaposing the “faces in the crowd” with the “petals on a wet black bough”. The word apparition applies to both of these and although they are being compared, the word unites them. And it shows how nature and the city can be similar.


*I have the first three and the other two timed writings hand written.*