In “On the Subway” by the author, Sharon Olds, she uses a set of terms to keep a deeper understanding of the poem. The devices included from many are imagery, symbolism, and metaphors. Through these devices Sharon puts the level of her poem at an extreme interpretation of daily life. In the first device, imagery, she uses “wearing dark fur” illustrating something dark and dead in our imaginations. “Skin of an animal” is another quote with the recent one where we imagine a mysterious animal that only a rich person could use. Most importantly the Sharon uses “look of a mugger” to paint us a picture of how the young boy looked like to the women. On the second device, symbolism, Sharon uses “laced with white in a complex pattern like a