Ron Wallace Hardware Poetic Techniques

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Journal 4 Poetry are rhythmic words that possess the power to sing like music. Ron Wallace’s poem “Hardware” is a beautiful example on how a poem can sing and dance. Ron uses techniques like plosives, fricatives, and liquids to control the pacing of the stanzas in the poem. He is deliberate with the movements. A great moment in “Hardware is on stanzas 4-6 which says, “set screw and rasp, ratchet wrench, band saw, and ball pen hammer.” In these small portion there are several fricatives and plosives and a liquid ending. He starts with a few fricatives to speed up the pace of the poem. After the word “wrench” he shifts the tone to plosives with the words “band saw” and “ball pen.” These words give the poem a commanding feeling as well as power.