Summary Of The Writer By Richard Wilbur

“The Writer” by Richard Wilbur uses many types of sound patterns, figurative language, and tone to create the theme of the poem as well as connect with the reader. The Speaker is a father who is having a flashback in relation to the clicks of his daughter’s typewriter clicks. The typewriter clicks are being compared to the Starling bird trying to fly, sporadically batting it’s wings. The sound patterns in this poem are slightly difficult to understand, but they make all the difference. The sound patterns are found in in the length of each line. The middle, second, line of each stanza is significantly longer. This example of sound pattern places emphasis on that line, which is where the main focus of that stanza is. Richard Wilbur uses figurative