Shaping To Staircase By Theodore Roethke

Shaping to Showcase
"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make." Readers love to read any literature such as poetry and novels for the meaning in it; certain text can give off several types of positive, negative, neutral, and other meanings. However, what causes a being to understand what they read? It all depends on the text and what the author tries to portray into their writing. Writers have various ways to design their writing to represent the meaning they are trying to convey. They use numerous strategies to help and create the meaning they want to showcase within a reader's mind. An author's specific word choice, imagery, and sensory details assist with the process of shaping meaning
To exemplify, Theodore Roethke carefully chooses specific word choice such as "beat" and "death" to portray a negative meaning in his poetry "My Papa's Waltz." With these words included in his work, he will have a reader create a negative image in mind. However, the author represents a positive meaning as well with the selected words "waltz" and "still clinging on to your shirt." These specific words that the author picks convey a positive and playful meaning into one's mind. Another example of specific diction is Langston Hughes' "Mother to Son;" Hughes decides to pick words such as "tacks," "splinters," and "no crystal stair" for his writing. The author uses these words to compare the character's difficult life to a truly used staircase. The author’s use of diction develops an image of the meaning into the viewer’s mind so it is easy to
Specifically, Langston Hughes' "Dream Deferred" contains well sensory sentences such as "Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" With these stanzas full of sensory detail, the author creates an appealing meaning that the readers can comprehend. Hughes' other poem "Mother to Son" also includes a line with sensory detail like "And sometimes goin' in the dark where there ain't been no light." This line represented the author's meaning of the comparison of the character's difficulties in her life to somewhere awfully dark. Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz" uses "romped until the pans slid from the kitchen shelf" to give off both a positive or negative sensory detail. The listed recite could convey either good or bad, but by all means, the author decides to add it so it helps a person shape a meaning and an accurate image into their head. The use of sensory details give a dull part of a writing a way better outview of the the meaning of the