`` Dolor'': Ritual and Duplicate Gray Standard
In a bureaucratic society, everybody is supposed to have a voice about what they like or dislike. However, some people may disagree that even though they are in a bureaucratic society, they still do not have a voice in many issues, such as the workplace. Theodore Roethke uses personification, long sentence structure, and formal diction in "Dolor" to show the anguish and loneliness of the everyday office routine in a bureaucratic society because it is as if the workers are the same, and have no voice.
Personification of the offices and its supplies metaphorically emphasizes the feelings of the work people. The "lonely reception room, lavatory, switchboard" (5) and the "ritual of multigraph, paper slip, coma" (7) are the feelings that only people can feel. However, the rooms are lonely and ritual is endless. In actuality, the people who work in the reception room, lavatory, and switchboard rooms feel the loneliness of working everyday, doing the same "rituals" over and over. The "sadness of pencils, neat in their boxes" (1-2) gives the reader the impression of the unhappy workers setting neatly, side by side in their cubicles, as if identity is nonexistent. By using personification of the office rooms and objects in them, gives the reader a better understanding of how lonely and sad the workers are while doing their jobs.
The long sentence structure shoes how the narrator and the workers feel bored and tired of the workplace life. There are only two sentences in the poem, which requires many comas that stress the routine procedures of their work life. The first sentence begins with "I have known the"¦" (1) the narrator lists the misery of the workers in personifications because one can not see the misery, sadness, etc. of the objects; they are not tangible. On the other hand, the next sentence begins with "And I have seen the"¦" (9), which the narrator lists a tangible thing falling upon the workers " dust. Dust accumulates over time, usually on objects that have
Personification of the offices and its supplies metaphorically emphasizes the feelings of the work people. The "lonely reception room, lavatory, switchboard" (5) and the "ritual of multigraph, paper slip, coma" (7) are the feelings that only people can feel. However, the rooms are lonely and ritual is endless. In actuality, the people who work in the reception room, lavatory, and switchboard rooms feel the loneliness of working everyday, doing the same "rituals" over and over. The "sadness of pencils, neat in their boxes" (1-2) gives the reader the impression of the unhappy workers setting neatly, side by side in their cubicles, as if identity is nonexistent. By using personification of the office rooms and objects in them, gives the reader a better understanding of how lonely and sad the workers are while doing their jobs.
The long sentence structure shoes how the narrator and the workers feel bored and tired of the workplace life. There are only two sentences in the poem, which requires many comas that stress the routine procedures of their work life. The first sentence begins with "I have known the"¦" (1) the narrator lists the misery of the workers in personifications because one can not see the misery, sadness, etc. of the objects; they are not tangible. On the other hand, the next sentence begins with "And I have seen the"¦" (9), which the narrator lists a tangible thing falling upon the workers " dust. Dust accumulates over time, usually on objects that have