Analysis Of The Juggler By Richard Wilbur

Have you ever seen a juggler? Jugglers can be found at carnivals and circuses and it is their job to entertain and impress people with their balancing skills. Many people enjoy watching going to these events and witnessing the phenomenal gift, including the juggler. In Richard Wilbur’s poem “Juggler” literary devices such as figurative language, vivid imagery and diction are used to depict the speaker’s amazement and admiration towards the juggler and the juggler and his remarkable expertise as someone who brings joy to people.

By including words such as, “beautiful lesson” and “happiness”, Gladwell touches upon the hearts of the audience, which also demonstrates his usage of rhetoric, in this case, pathos. It allows him to argue passionately that there “will be a surer way to true happiness.” He continues his usage of rhetoric through ethos by mentioning a psychophysicist named Howard

    Rhetoric in a film is of utmost importance that without valid justification for what is occurring in the screen, the film can become confusing unless there is some degree of logos. In the Pursuit of Happyness  the theme of hopelessness effects the logos of the film. Poverty is an issue which is brought up throughout the film and in order to believe that hardships one goes through if they are not financially stable is very common to other’s experiences.  The first instance of logos occurs during

Certain things some people do can seem beyond human powers, even defying gravity. In “The Juggler,” the poet Richard Wilbur describes the awe and wonder felt by the speaker watching the juggler; the speaker is amazed by the gracefulness of the balls flying in the air and even portrays the juggler as reeling in heaven itself. Through the use of imagery portraying the juggler’s magical performance, specific structure and syntax of the poem, and diction that elicits the godly powers of the juggler, the speaker describes the juggler as a superhuman who defies gravity while expressing the speaker’s own inability to overcome the challenges in his daily life and thus his negative view of the world.

Zadie Smith uses more anecdotes that appeal to feelings. “The top of my head flew away. We danced and danced. We gave ourselves up to joy” (148). She describes that while she was at the night club she had a moment of joy. And that she freely gave herself to be free and enjoy herself. “I ‘have’ pleasure, it is a feeling I want to experience and own. A beach holiday is a pleasure. A new dress is a pleasure. But on that dance floor I was joy, or some small piece of

Richard Wilbur, a legendary figure and the poet of "The Juggler", withholds great historical background unknown to many individuals. Despite of young age, Wilbur composed numerous short-stories, poems and editorials for college newspaper. In consideration with a majority of the masterpieces, a prominent theme exhibited throughout each is based upon the observations of surroundings and the natural world. Historically, Wilbur's involvement within World War II contributed significant influence in various poems. Similarly, "The Juggler" primarily emphasizes the notion of fluctuations involved within juggling, comparing such to harsh realities of daily routines.

Mustapha Mond responds to John Savage’s protest, saying that John has a point, but that in this society, happiness is the greater good and great literature can only come from unhappiness.

The author Richard Wilbur wrote the poem "The Beautiful Changes" in 1947. He relates changes in nature to those in a person. He was inspired by exploring botony and nature. I will explain to you why the author intentionally created the rhythm to go up and down with a grammatical structure making it difficult for the reader to grasp. According to The Norton Literature book the poem is a lyric verse form. The poem has a rhyme scheme of abcacdc which tells you that the second and the fifth lines of each stanza do not rhyme. Between are full and vowel ending in rhymes with the use of enjambment to help tighten and make it memorable. In this poem there is a mix of meter iambic feet which goes throughout most of the lines making it go up and down in a steady rhythm. The syntax makes it hard for the reader to get the right tempo. Although some may say that the poem "The Beautiful Changes" by Richard Wilbur is only about change and some may say it is all about enjoying life.

Throughout the poem the author uses imagery to describe the juggler’s appearance and the tricks he is accomplishing in his show. For example, Wilbur states, “it takes a sky-blue juggler with five red balls...to shake our gravity up.” (lines 6-7). The author’s description of the juggler as someone who can “shake our gravity up” (line 7) shows that the juggler is someone who has a tremendous impact on the audience and the speaker because the audience is full of serious people and the juggler evokes happiness and astonishment from the audience. Moreover, by saying this the audience is able to get an insight into the life of the speaker; we are able to see that not a lot of things happen in the speaker's life that make the speaker happy. Additionally, Wilbur shows the reader the the juggler is performing, the author says, “ Oh, on his toe the table is turning, the broom’s Balancing up on his nose, and the plate whirls. On the tip of the broom!” (lines 9-21). We can see the juggler as he is performing his great trick and how the crowd is happy and amazed at what he is accomplishing through his performance when the author says, “ Damn, what a show,we cry…” ( line 21). Having the crowd cheer at the juggler as he completes his trick of the balancing act showed that people are made happy with small things like the juggling trick the juggler was performing for the crowd.

One of the themes he criticizes is illusion of happiness. An example of this is on page 4, where it says “... the fiery still gripped by his face muscles, in the dark. It never went away, that smile, it never ever went away, as long

Another clear example that uses a connection between visuals and the text to illustrate that working a job merely for the money will not provide happiness is Beryl Simpson’s interview about being an airline reservationist. Beryl Simpson “hated it with a passion getting sick in the morning, going to work feeling ‘OH MY GOD! I’ve got to go to work’” (122). A visual shows her struggle of trying to get out of bed to go to a job that she hates. Her face looks wrinkled, worn down, and depressed (122). Beryl admits that when she was working for the airline she had a high status and “was always introduced as Beryl Simpson who works for the airline” (124). However this high status did not provide her with happiness. She felt as if she was a computer when she went to work and had no free-will. This repetitive work that she hated wore away at her, and even though it provided her with a salary and high status, she was not genuinely happy.

Are materials describing what makes the human race happy or is it deeper than that? Darrin M. McMahon’s article, “In Pursuit of Unhappiness”(2005) claims that humans have different ways of finding unhappiness because no one person is exactly the same. He supports his claim by throwing a quote making a second view on things, “We seldom think of those words as an order.” then Darrin brings a survey on the 1950’s that shows we weren’t happier than now, finally giving into his research he puts everyone down still with an order. A purpose of Darrin’s is to show that humans are all different but feelings haven’t changed over the past few hundred years.

According to Storm Jameson, “Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.” Jameson suggests that happiness is not just having fun, but it is to be present in the moment and to make connections with others. Happiness is rarely found in the novel Fahrenheit 451, because this joyless society defines “fun” as driving with the need for speed and with an intention of killing small animals and people or the deadening white noise of endless television viewing. The novel Fahrenheit 451 conveys this very idea as the protagonist Guy Montag and others in his society are unable to achieve full happiness. Author Ray Bradbury suggests the truth of Jameson’s statement primarily through

Throughout the short stories, “Apollo” by Chimamanda Adichie and “The Two Brothers” by Leo Tolstoy, the authors reveal that happiness comes in many forms. In Adichie‘s short story Okenwa is a boy who doesn’t feel like he belongs anywhere, but he has a strong love for Kung fu. One day when Okenwa was practicing his Kung fu in his room his families house boy walked in on him. Instead of yelling at Okenwa for messing up the room he had just cleaned, Okenwa narrates “...he smiled, touched his chest, and brought his finger to his tongue, as though tasting his own blood. My favorite scene. I stared at Raphael with the pure thrill of unexpected pleasure”(Adichie, p.3). For the first time after this quote Okenwa had a sense of belonging and happiness.

In Simon Critchley’s passage called Happy Like God, Critchley explains how he read a passage that he thought was extraordinary and was good enough to write an essay on. The passage was from Rousseau’s final book, Reveries of a Solitary Walker. The passage described the experience of someone floating on a rowboat on Lake of Bienne, next to the writer's native town, in his native country. Critchley explains how he thinks this is the closest description of happiness he can imagine. Ultimately, this would make people assume that Critchley finds most of his happiness from relaxing activities than crazy, loud and overwhelming ones.