In " On the Subway " the author uses literary devices such as imagery, tone , similes etc.To identify the contrasts that develop both portraits in the " On the Subway". The author uses those literary devices to express and discuss how well the narrator comes to as the result of having their experience. The author is switching the time of this poem constantly. The author uses imagery throughout the poem to express how the narrator may look or feel at a certain time. For example , in the poem it says " the boy and I face each other " , the author uses this to show how the two people come to look at each other. Another literary device the author uses is simile. The author uses similes to compare and contrast two different things. For example