The Juggler's Characters InThe Juggler, By Richard Wilbur

Moreover, the speaker’s admiration for the juggler is present when the speaker states, “It takes a sky-blue juggler with five red balls...” (Line 6) Astonished, the speaker

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

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

Symbolisation is also used to counteract the miserable life of an Australian housewife. This can be seen in the line “She practises a fugue, though it can matter to no one now if she plays well or not, (stanza one, line one).” This line suggests that the woman portrayed is a musician. The poem latter reads, “Once she played for Rubinstein, who yawned,” (stanza one, line nine). This suggests she was talented enough to present to Rubenstein but didn’t succeed. “The children caper, round a sprung mousetrap where a mouse lies dead.” This line symbolizes the housewife. Her dreams of becoming a musician are trapped within her own environment. This same line can also evaluate the difficulties and harshness of the urban Australian life. Seeming sad this is something that is exciting to the children.

In the poem the author uses imagery to describe the juggler’s appearance and the tricks he is accomplishing in his show. Richard says, “it takes a sky-blue juggler with five red balls...to shake our gravity up.” (lines 6-7). The author describes the juggler as being the color blue and having 5 red balls during his show. He also that it took “a sky-blue juggler… to shake our gravity up.”(lines 6-7). 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. Moreover, Richard Wilbur shows the reader on of the tricks the juggler is doing. He 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 his trick when the author says, “ Damn, what a show,we cry…” ( line 21). Having the crowd cheer at the juggler completes his trick of the balancing act showed that

Henry Reeds has divided his poem in five six-lined stanzas. Each stanza has followed a particular pattern of alternating. In the stanzas the poet has used imagery and word play as the major poetic devices. His aim which has been achieved quite sufficiently, is to evoke the suggestions made by the instructor and explain the implications of the

Colour imagery is used in the beginning of the poem as the speaker describes his

Competitive, this is the imagery that this poem is creating and the reason why the author did this is to show us how competitive this swimmer is. This swimmer is in a race and he wants to win, the author shows us that the swimmer was well trained and ready for this. The author uses many imagery in his poem and it lets us picture in our head what is going on. When you read the poem you picture everything, nothing is a blur and you know what exactly is going on in this poem. To me it was like watching the whole thing in my head while I was reading it, without the imagery the author put in I would understand a thing about what was going on. “He flips, converts, and is gone all in one. We watch him for signs. His arms are steady at the catch, his cadent feet tick in the stretch, they know the lesson well.” In these two sentences you can picture what is going on, and in these two sentences the author shows us again how good of technique this swimmer

“Kaleidoscope” is filled with sentiment. It reminds readers of their youth as John loses his. Its innocence is present throughout the poem, as Reibetanz conjures up the image of playing pretend and cardboard boxes became a “tank / Powered by hands and knees / That rode each side’s jackknifed / Collapse to the pavement” (13-16). It addresses the reckless freedom of youth as he and his childhood friend play “stoopball” (17) in the street, and the uncertainty of the future. Though, the words create the image of childhood and imagination, there is a sense of regret in lines of the first verse:

The poem seems to describe a soccer game that is taking place somewhere in the hills. In the first stanza, the verbs ‘plunging' and ‘bareback' make me think of something approaching with force and without a saddle, possibly a life obstacle. The ‘hills' could also be symbolizing several ups and downs in life. The poem later finishes the stanza with "bounced, and their blown ball bounced." The alliteration in this sentence is probably emphasizing the continuous movement of a

Often at times there are many voices in one poem. These voices represent the different views that come from the same material that are portrayed by the buzz that the bee elicit in the hive. The proposal that Collins is trying to exude is that there is never one way to read a poem. The type of approach will vary with reader and who they are, but by having a radical approach it will help to enhance our understanding of what the poem means. Collins wants the reader to feel free when analyzing a poem: “I want them to waterski across the surface of the poem waving at the author’s name on the shore.” As a teacher you try to pummel depth into your students’ minds and push them into the direction of understanding. The speaker declares that the grapple to illuminating meaning and the amount of time where the reader does not understand adds to the worth of the poem. The parallel to the surface of water, where you have not attained the depth even though you know it’s there is important to how much it takes to find the true meaning of a poem. While reading this poem it have the outlook on how poetry places more of aln emphasis on us to be able to pick apart the undisclosed meaning and essentially to be able to pull apart the poem without a fixed structure. By doing it this way it is able to help the audience to build upon skills to help interpret and understand, which substantially is important throughout any source of literature. We

The poem does not really focus on any elements of football, but rather the different thoughts that go through ones mind at a game. One can read this poem without having any knowledge of football, but still understand the meaning of the poem. In the poem, you first talk about baby thoughts and compare them to many things such as the shape of seaweed and pirate knives. I think