In Richard Wilbur’s ‘The Juggler,’ the speaker describes the juggler as someone who is attempting to lift the spirits of his audience with his talent to distract them from their tedious and arduous daily lives. Through this description, the speaker reveals about themselves that they too are suffering from a tedious and arduous daily life. The description of the juggler and what it reveals about the speaker are expressed in each stanza through the use of diction, figurative language and tone. The opening lines of the poem demonstrate personification, saying, “[The ball is not]
(5 & 6) The poem is 46 lines, one stanza and flows like a song or is conversational. Alliteration used is the “s” and “b” sounds in phrases “I snapped beans into the silver bowl” (1), “that sat on the splintering slats” (2) and “about sex, about
In the 1949 poem The Juggler by Richard Wilbur, the speaker describes the juggler as trying to maintain 2 different tasks under a tumultuous circumstance. This describes reveals the speakers own struggle to juggle various tasks, and the recognition he is deserving for this. Poetic elements such as metaphors, tone, and imagery are used. In The Juggler, the titular character is seen juggling multiple balls in his hand, using imagery such as “it takes a sky-blue juggler with five red balls.”
Circuses are fun to go to. They entertain an audience with attention-grabbing tricks and acts that involve a variety of individuals, animals, and props. One quintessential aspect of the circus is the juggler. Not only does a juggler juggle balls, they juggle bowling pins, sharp objects, fire, etc., while still trying to keep the audience engaged and intrigued. In Richard Wilbur’s poem, “The Juggler,” Wilbur describes a juggler through the use of poetic elements all the while revealing details about the speaker.
In Richard Wilbur's poem "The Juggler," the speaker uses vivid imagery and figurative language to describe the skill and control of a juggler, creating a sense of admiration and awe for the juggler's ability to defy gravity and create a sense of magic and wonder through his performance. However, the speaker also recognizes the temporary nature of the juggler's feats and the eventual return to everyday life, adding a sense of nostalgia and longing to the poem. Through this description of the juggler, the speaker reveals a fascination with the juggler's abilities and the temporary escape from the mundane that the juggler's performance offers, while also acknowledging the limitations of that escape. The poem begins by comparing a ball to the
The author’s sentence structure does not rhyme, diverges in length and in connotation, more often observing the children, some other times her own feelings. Some of the sentences are evocative or descriptive, while some others are spoken comments going back and forth between the kids. She, as well touches back upon her own past; when she was bringing back some memories of the birth of her child: “… long hands cool and thin as the day they guided him out of me” (703). While the sentences run and read easily, as a cheerful child’s birthday party, they have no verse, or alliteration, which for a poem can seem paradoxical, as the adult original sound of the theme. One sure can get the feeling from which Sharon Olds is unhappy about the forfeiture of naivety of her son and she has the feeling that the upcoming of him is already placed in a disappointed manner, like they are going to grow up with conflict in their thoughts.
In ‘Juggler’ by Richard Wilbur, a juggler gives a dynamic, practically divine performance to an audience that expresses an almost cult-like devotion to him. Through images of the juggler’s hypnotic performance that seem to defy our most innate concepts of motion, diction that provokes thoughts of religion and the idea of fate, and a rhyme scheme that seems to bounce back and forth as if it were a part of the juggler’s act, the speaker illuminates the complex relationship between humans and their beliefs and how these beliefs contribute to our understanding of fate. A sense of power is developed within the juggler throughout the poem, suggesting that he has a greater influence on the scene around him than what is described on the surface.
Richard Wright’s poem “Between the World and Me” mourns the tragic scene of a gruesome lynching, and expresses its harsh impact on the narrator. Wright depicts this effect through the application of personification, dramatic symbolism, and desperate diction that manifests the narrator’s agony. In his description of the chilling scene, Wright employs personification in order to create an audience out of inanimate objects. When the narrator encounters the scene, he sees “white bones slumbering forgottenly upon a cushion of ashes,” and a sapling “pointing a blunt finger accusingly at the sky.”
In the line “A ball will bounce but less and less… settles and is [forgotten]”, the ball is interpreted as dwindling passion, it lasts(bounces) only for a while. It eventually goes away, but the speaker in the last sentence of the first stanza believes “It takes a sky-blue juggler with five red balls to shake our
Everyone has a passion but few can say they find their joy in the art of juggling. Richard Wilbur explores the emotions throughout a juggling act in his poem “The Juggler.” Through various tones, vibrant imagery, and a venturesome narrative, the speaker of “The Juggler” reveals the elegance of a juggler and their own fondness of another’s passion. The speaker opens with the beginning of the act.
Imagery and tone plays a huge role for the author in this poem. It’s in every stanza and line in this poem. The tone is very passionate, joyful and tranquil.
The poem is contained of five equal stanzas and each stanza has six lines. Nevertheless, at the end of the second stanza the speaker uses a strong shifting phrase, “ But a heaven is easier made of nothing at all” this indicates that the speaker is switching towards a serious, heavy hearted standpoint. The speaker switched attitudes because of the lack of energy he has doing all this juggling and just doesn’t have the will to “ shake our gravity up” anymore. The image of him switching the “five red balls” for the “broom, a plate, a table” empathizes the fact that the juggler has no ambition or purpose in creating “brilliance” any longer. Even so, towards the end of the poem in the last stanza the speaker states “the juggler is tired now,” this helps support that serious tone the speaker wants to input onto the audience.
In the poem “The Juggler” written by Richard Wilbur, the speaker displays a clear fascination in the juggler’s act and illustrates the juggler as an individual capable of bringing happiness and distraction, which is temporary and fleeting as everyone is vulnerable to the monotony and sadness natural to the human condition. Through this description, the speaker reveals that he is cognizant of this weakness and admires the juggler for being able to uplift the spirits of those who watch his performance, even if it is for a short period of time. The poem is organized into five stanzas with each stanza consisting of 6 lines each. The rhythm is arranged in an ABCBAC pattern.
Throughout the majority of the piece, Eliot pairs nonadjacent rhyming lines within a stanza, and therefore the occasional adjacent rhyming pair attracts more of the reader’s attention, and so Eliot follows this pattern with many of his more impactful lines. For example, one of the more notable lines in the poem, “In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo” (5), which Eliot also chose to repeat, is further emphasized by the structuring it as an isolated rhyming couplet, which helps to set it apart from the irregular pattern of the longer stanzas surrounding it. The accentuation of this passage then in turn contributes to the creation of the melancholy tone with its diction such as “come and go” by tying back into Prufrock’s sense of
She creates a mysterious atmosphere in this peaceful setting hinting that many things are happening where we can’t see as “Things are getting ready, to happen, out of sight”. By building anticipation as if the whole world is waiting for this precious moment between this mother and child “but not yet”. Yet, once her child “has run into her arms” everything in the poem has been leading up to “This Moment”. The word choice, “stars rises, moths flutter, apples sweeten” highlights the
