I see a lot of personification in this poem. He talks about how the steel is like flowers and he takes things home like prized vegetables. There is also some consonance in this poem. (like "cannons and cars") The poem is mostly personification between the unreal steel and the real flowers. I also can see a little imager in it. (like "gears and cogwheels With teeth like petals")
Monday, April 2, 2012
"My Father's Garden"
I picked the poem "My Father's Garden" by David Wagoner. I picked it because the tittle seamed interesting. It is about a place that makes hot rolled steel. The graden is not a garden that you would normally think of. It is a graden of steel scraps. The narrator refers to the stuff in the scrap yard as flowers in a garden. At the end they talk about how he brings "lumps of tin and sewer grills as if they were his ripe prize vegetables.
I see a lot of personification in this poem. He talks about how the steel is like flowers and he takes things home like prized vegetables. There is also some consonance in this poem. (like "cannons and cars") The poem is mostly personification between the unreal steel and the real flowers. I also can see a little imager in it. (like "gears and cogwheels With teeth like petals")
I see a lot of personification in this poem. He talks about how the steel is like flowers and he takes things home like prized vegetables. There is also some consonance in this poem. (like "cannons and cars") The poem is mostly personification between the unreal steel and the real flowers. I also can see a little imager in it. (like "gears and cogwheels With teeth like petals")
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This poem sounds interesting! I wonder if the "steel garden" is a metaphor for something.
ReplyDeleteMonty, I think you might be mixing up personification (describing something in a way that seems human) and simile (comparison using "like" or "as." What is going on in the last two stanzas?
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