My Grandmother's Love Letters
Likewise diction is a tool with the power to shake an audience out of their everyday perspective. In “ A Martian sends a postcard home” the alien persona narrates in by use of third person about random human activities in no particular order. From the martian’s observations seemingly ordinary human behavior is seen to be completely foreign and nearly unrecognizable. For example the martian quotes, Only the young are allowed to suffer openly. Adults go to a punishment room/ With water but nothing to eat. (25-27) Furthermore after several re reading one would be surprised to find the martian is actually describing the process in which humans go to the bathroom. Also the poem is written in both first and third person. “I have never seen
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No last name for the grandmother is listed; readers do not know the name of which she was bound by her marriage vows. Rather the persona brings about an intimacy with just giving her first name “Elizabeth.” Thus ,readers are encouraged to see her as an individual who is complex not just an elderly woman. All the focus is on her for the contents of the letter or from whom they were exchanged with is not once mentioned. The only clue as to what the aging paper is in the title “My Grandmother’s Love Letters”. For the persona says the letters are in “ a corner of the roof” () and the attic has “greatness of such …show more content…
Likewise,“The Snow Man” has the strong use of nature images to convey a larger visual picture.
Similar to the effects of imagery, personification takes the next step inviting the reader further beyond the visual aspect. The human like characteristics give the objects breath, an air of life and creates a passage for the reader to connect on a personal level. To demonstrate in the poem “pause, Pause” writer Kevin Prufer masterfully uses personification to make the empty school room come to life. For example Praise to the empty schoolroom, when the folders/are stowed and the sighing desktops close. (1-2). The first two stanzas encourage the reader to feel a sense of exhaustion.
Personification also can create further engage readers by the use of the five senses in particular sound. As seen in “A Martian Sends a Postcard Home” a watch is described to be “ticking with impatience (18).” Also personification says what the poet cannot write without birthing a
No last name for the grandmother is listed; readers do not know the name of which she was bound by her marriage vows. Rather the persona brings about an intimacy with just giving her first name “Elizabeth.” Thus ,readers are encouraged to see her as an individual who is complex not just an elderly woman. All the focus is on her for the contents of the letter or from whom they were exchanged with is not once mentioned. The only clue as to what the aging paper is in the title “My Grandmother’s Love Letters”. For the persona says the letters are in “ a corner of the roof” () and the attic has “greatness of such …show more content…
Likewise,“The Snow Man” has the strong use of nature images to convey a larger visual picture.
Similar to the effects of imagery, personification takes the next step inviting the reader further beyond the visual aspect. The human like characteristics give the objects breath, an air of life and creates a passage for the reader to connect on a personal level. To demonstrate in the poem “pause, Pause” writer Kevin Prufer masterfully uses personification to make the empty school room come to life. For example Praise to the empty schoolroom, when the folders/are stowed and the sighing desktops close. (1-2). The first two stanzas encourage the reader to feel a sense of exhaustion.
Personification also can create further engage readers by the use of the five senses in particular sound. As seen in “A Martian Sends a Postcard Home” a watch is described to be “ticking with impatience (18).” Also personification says what the poet cannot write without birthing a