The Race Poem Analysis

In Sharon Olds poem, "The Race,” Olds tells her story as she races to the airport and scrambles through the Gates in order to fly home and see her dying father one last time. The poem infuses suspense as she swiftly makes her way through to the airport and to the Gate that was departing in a few moments. Olds' excessive use of enjambments, metaphors, and personification demonstrates her sense of persistence all throughout the poem.
Moreover, she attentively listens to the young man, which provides her instructions to catch another flight. She changes from walking to suddenly sprinting to the other Gate, as if from zero to one hundred she boosts up and runs to the Gate without hesitation. She states, "...I saw the corridor/ and then I took a deep breath, I said/ goodbye to my
Considerably she strives for the nearly impossible , to make it through the rush of the congested airport, filled with people coming in and out. She compares," I who have no sense of direction/raced exactly where he'd told me, a fish/ slipped upstream deftly against the flow of a river..." She illustrates a fish swimming, the opposite way of the flow of a river to her trying to get through. Subsequently, emphasizing her attempt to not give up under no circumstance. After so long makes it through and approaches her plane.
Her journey to her father expresses how much love she has for him. From the moment she leaves her home packing in only five minutes and arrive to only discover that her phone departure in only ten minutes, she gave it her all and made it. Olds interprets of enjambment, allusion, and metaphors prepare the storyline of the poem. She chronologies her event well and allows the reader to feel a part of the story. She manages the represent the meaning and point out her feeling anxiouity along with the writer and the desperation to