Summary Of It Takes A Sky Blue Juggler By Richard Wilbur

In the poem by Richard Wilbur poetic elements are present. The tone shift from negative to positive shows us how the speaker feels toward to juggler, which is that he brings happiness to people. The figurative language shows how the juggler performs and the vivid imagery shows how skilled he is.
The speaker’s tone starts off with being negative. It says “a ball will bounce, but less and less” this gives off a negative connotation. The ball may represent happiness. The happiness will occur but slowly it will fade away. When this ball stops bouncing the world is now a less happy place. The poem says “It takes a sky blue juggler with five red balls to shake our gravity up.” By this the speaker may mean that in order to have happiness again the