Figurative Language And Imagery InJuggler, By Richard Wilbur

I can tell you the authors style in the book In November by Cynthia Rylant. The style in her writings are mostly personification or figurative language. I know this because on page 4 it says "spreading there arms like dancers" based on what I read Cynthia Rylant uses personification also uses a simile. The book In November Cynthia uses tree limbs as dancers. She give a descriptive look as what the tree looks like. Cynthia Rylant uses a human action to a non human thing.

The overall meaning of the poem would be, poets like to make their poems confuse the reader. Within the poet we have:

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The poem maintains a specific structure that organizes six lines into each stanza and places major verbs in the beginning of each line, which allows the speaker to describe a different part of the juggler’s performance for each stanza and place emphasis on the actions of the juggler to underscore the amazement the speaker feels. The first stanza describes how gravity usually works, but introduces the juggler’s power to defy this gravity, while the second stanza describes how the juggler moves the balls around in order to show this superhuman power. The poem reaches its climax in the fourth stanza, ending the performance of the juggler, and the last stanza describes how even though the act is over, the juggler has left a sense of awe and inspiration into the speaker. This specific organization helps the speaker transition his feeling of the performance from the beginning to the end, successfully showing the juggler has left him in wonder. Furthermore, in the second stanza, Richard Wilbur places the verbs, “Learning,” “Grazing,” “Cling,” and “Swinging” in the beginning of each line, putting the emphasis on those words and pausing for a moment before going into the important verbs (9,10,11,12). This syntax helps the poet describe what makes the speaker so amazed by the juggler, the specific and graceful movement of the juggler as he throws the balls up and down the air.

As the poem begins, the reader immediately visualizes someone playing outside in a “polka dot dress,” and this someone is the personification of poetry (1). Forman uses

In the poem, the speaker uses figurative language to reveal and portray that the objects that the juggler juggles have a sense or life of their own and how their actions make the show even more impressive on the juggler’s end. Whether it’s the ball's’ “own resilience” as it bounces less and less or “wheel on his wheeling hands”, the figurative language describes an inanimate object that is subject to the laws of nature and forces such as gravity which is shown by the line “falling is what it loves.” However, under the hands of the juggler, it’s as if the juggler has changed the ball’s natural tendencies to his own, becoming the ball’s own force that it has to follow. The juggler appears to be as an omnipotent

The speaker wants the readers, who take up the roll of students of the poem, to envision poetry as a color slide. The speaker wishes the reader to understand that he cannot see the full detail of the slide if it is not held into light. When thinking of this in a metaphorical way, the speaker is asking the reader to examine poetry and see all of its beauty and self-interpreted meaning. Most readers tend to base their interpretation on methods they have been taught, but what the speaker wants the reader to do is to use their own mind to illuminate the poems meaning, much how you use you’re to eyes to decipher visual imagery. The sense motif continues into the next verse switching from visualization to hearing.

Wilbur describes the juggler as happy in the moment through imagery revealing that the speaker may be going through a rough patch in his life. When the juggler is performing it is described as “Landing it ball by ball… 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!” as the children applaud and cheer the juggler on until “he bows and says good-bye.”. When the juggler is done putting on such a fantastic show he “is tired now… and though the plate lies flat on the table top, for him we batter our hands who has won for once over the world’s weight.”. The use of imagery about the plate lying flat on the table instead of the plate whirling shows us the juggler is tired but we still clap for him because in that moment of him putting on a show he made people happy and made no mistakes. The juggler “swinging a small heaven above his ears” is happy in the moment. The use of imagery

As the poem progresses, we can see how the juggler manipulates the five red balls he is using to move around his body. Richard Wilbur uses figurative language like personification to show how the balls move by the tricks the juggler does. Wilbur says, “ The balls roll around, wheel on his wheeling hand, learning the ways of lightness, alter to spheres, grazing his finger ends, cling to their course there.” ( lines 8-11). The author explains how the

The second stanza describes the balls being thrown into the air. The concept of the juggler and his five red balls “shaking up our gravity” is introduced here as the narrator details how the ball goes up, saying, “Whee, in the air the balls roll around, wheel on his wheeling hands.” (Line 7 and 8). The use of the word “whee” reveals the tone of stanza

The piano puts together words like “snicker” and “flicker”, “din” and “within”, “rumbles” and “fumbles”, and “moon” and “tune” providing a unique sound throughout the poem. These rhymes made the poem come to life in my eyes, and that is one of the reasons it is so spectacular. The words in the poem made the piano come to life, and this is known as personification. The use of the world, “flicker” makes me think of a fire or light, which for some people symbolizes life.

The sky-blue juggler can “shake our gravity up,” the gravity being our state of mind and this juggler can ease us because he shakes one to a happy state. As the juggler continues to manipulate the balls, they move faster and faster, using a polysyndeton, “whee, in the air the balls roll around, wheel on his wheeling hands,” to present how the balls are defying the gravity. Which usually always constricts us, but it is becoming its own spirit, “swinging” to “a small heaven. ” The ball is becoming freer, which reveals how the speaker wants to become like that ball and defy gravity. The juggler can juggle this ball with ease, which is known.

In the poem, “Juggler”, Richard Wilbur reveals imagery, details and the tone in this poem about the juggler. Imagery shows the readers exactly what the speaker is saying about the juggler and describe what the juggler is doing in this poem. The speaker uses imagery to reveal the ideas of the speaker describing the juggler. The readers can picture in their mind exactly what the juggler is doing in his performance. There’s a lot of detail the speaker is saying that’s describing the juggler and what he does with the objects he’s using in his performance. The tone is the excitement of the speaker and the audience. This reveals that the speaker is describing the juggler’s movements and actions, by doing that the speaker also tries to express

The poem is one extended metaphor between a boat and river. In this case, roller skate man and him riding down Queen street. The man is homeless and cannot afford a wheelchair to move around the city, he uses his hands to propel himself on his board, he proves peoples thoughts about

At this point we are being advised by the speaker that if we have a skill we must use it for the rest of our lives. But it also says that if people find you can fiddle, which suggests a communal aspect. This skill that sets one apart also makes them a part of a community that cherishes the skill which one has acquired. This further contributes to the meaning on the poem because this is the point in which we are given insight into the speaker’s philosophy. This belief being that if one is good at something it should fully encompass their being for the duration of one’s life, thus rendering it a passion that becomes as a part of living as breathing itself. This leads into the next lines where we are now required to consider value as a component in distinguishing divergent perspectives.