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Ode To Dirt By Sharon Old Summary

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Sharon Olds is a poet who is known for writing a poem called, "Ode to Dirt" in which admires nature. Although Olds used to despise dirt by calling it "the background for leading characters", she later apologizes and admires dirt. In, "Ode to Dirt" Sharon Olds elaborates on her praise of dirt by using certain words, similes, and personification. Olds tributes dirt by using certain vocabulary in the ode. To illustrate, Olds uses words such as, "slight" and "intricate" to indicate how her views have changed of dirt. In Stanza 1, she uses the word "slighted" to imply the history Olds had of insulting and downplaying dirt which then states how wrong she was forever making less than dirt. In addition, she uses the word "intricate" to describe
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