Poem About The Traveling Onion By Nye

Nye’s poem about the traveling onion is one that may be a little hard to determine. It is written in pros form instead of free verses which means that it is written in paragraph form. The tone of the poem is told as if the onion has a story of its own because the title gives more than just a meaning as if it has been traveling a distance. The first line of the poem says, “When I think of how far the onion has travelled” could literally mean how far it travelled from one destination to the next. The introduction to the poem states that the onion has traveled to places such as Europe, Italy, Egypt, and Greece as well. The poem also states that the onion falls apart and history is revealed. When it says that history is revealed, the poet reveals that the onion is overlooked in many ways because it has so many insignificant things about I that no one realizes the importance of the onion. Onions were cultivated over 5,000 years ago, so therefore onions have more than just a small history behind them.

By the onion being small and insignificant, the reader can take from this poem that everything is important and cannot be taken for granted because everything has a purpose and a meaning. This is described in lines 3 and 19 by the words forgotten and disappear to show that people sometimes forget about the small things in the world that matter. She also uses very little repetition throughout the poem by using the word forgotten. This poem has no particular rhyme scheme as