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Analyzing The Poem 'The Juggler'

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In the Poem, “The Juggler” the speaker develops a very exciting tone which eventually evolves into a very solemn and serious poem through the uses of very strong diction and sophisticated use of personification that helps develop a shift in the tone. Throughout the beginning of the poem, the speaker personifies the balls and uses positive diction which creates a very light hearted and joyful atmosphere to start off the poem. For example, phrases such as “our hearts from brilliance” and “Whee, in the air” helps develop a positive attitude towards juggling for a group of people. The speaker enjoys making “brilliance” with his skillful abilities and just wouldn’t sacrifice that for anything. Meanwhile, the speaker also gives the balls human characteristics which emphasizes the …show more content…

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. Throughout the last half of the poem this tone shift makes the audience take the poem seriously and to not make it a “light-hearted

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