Enc1102 Daughters‚ A Mother’s Replacement Sharon Olds explains “the oldest story we have on our planet (line 17)” in her poem 35/10‚ the story of replacement. Mother daughter replacement‚ when the daughter enters the stage of full bodily maturity as the mother’s days fade and she no longer has sharpened looks nor the ability to produce young. At this time‚ the mother is forced to hand over the women duties and believe in her heart that she has lead her daughter down the right path that
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goosebumps painted on the skin are worthless without it. “Last Night”‚ written by Sharon Olds‚ is a perfect reflection of how being in love has a profound effect when in relation to intimacy. Olds compares her experience while being in love‚ to her experience when her feelings for her partner are neutral. Throughout this piece Olds conveys her message with the use of similes‚ repetition‚ imagery‚ and hyperbole. Olds included a variety of devices to convey her message‚ one way was through the use
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In the poem "On the Subway" by Sharon Olds‚ she contrasts the worlds of an affluent white person and a poor black person. The two people have many opposing characteristics‚ and the author uses literary techniques such as tone‚ poetic devices‚ and imagery to portray these differences. The narrator is the white woman‚ and she realizes how people get "stuck" in places of society based on their skin color. The word "stuck" is repeated twice to stress this idea. The major difference between the two people
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Alex Upton “1954” by Sharon Olds is a poem displaying the horrors of an instance of rape and murder of a young girl by a man named Burton Abbott in 1954. Olds uses a frantic and horrified tone highlighted by a careful choice of diction to express her messages that any ordinary-looking person can disguise evil and the current justice system has a hypocritical eye-for-an-eye mindset that only ends up destroying human life. The structure of “1954” is built on enjambment and broken sentences. This
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In On The Subway by Sharon Olds the narrator contrasts two worlds to develop both portraits by comparing a white wealthy woman to a African American young man. By doing that she uses imagery by describing the appearance of both characters. Also she uses tone to explain the fear the white woman had because she felt threatened by the black man. He also uses organization to reveal how the white woman changed her mind from the beginning of the poem to the end. Olds uses imagery for the readers to imagine
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Whitman and Olds – Controversial Poets of Their Centuries Both Walt Whitman and Sharon Olds are great and controversial poets of their time. Walt Whitman’s poetry mainly takes place in the 1800’s during the American Civil War Era and Sharon Olds’ poems take place in the mid 1900’s. Walt Whitman and Sharon Olds are both known to be free verse writers since their poems don’t rhyme and don’t follow a real traditional stanza. They are also known to be very controversial during their time periods because
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tram" by Sharon Olds portrays her encounters of her own life as an African American whatever other typical individual. Sharon utilizes many words that allude to her skin shading which is dark so she can be more particular and clear with her illustrations. In the start of the of the lyric‚ we have Sharon experiencing a kid which is the inverse skin shading. " His feet are gigantic‚ in dark shoes bound with white in a mind boggling design like an arrangement of deliberate scars"‚ Sharon is contrasting
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Feminist criticism “On the Subway” by Sharon Olds : “On the Subway” is a poem about the inferiority and weakness of women which results them to be ambitious and belief in their ability to overcome patriarchy. The poem effectively describes the bitterness and anger of females .In particular ‚it displays the idea that a weak man in the society is superior than a powerful woman in the society. Thus ‚ the poem effectively depicts the way less powerful females are in the society . There are several
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In the poem “On the Subway‚” Sharon Olds uses poetic devices‚ tone‚ and imagery to identify the contrasts between a woman and young man who are on the opposite sides of the subway and who live opposite lives due to the color of their social classes in order to give insights on the result of the experience. Olds use of simile shows how she judges the boy instantly. Olds states “His feet …‚ in black sneakers laced with white in a complex pattern like a set of intentional scars.” She compares
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Sharon Olds in "On the Subway" writes the poem to contrast the lives of a Caucasian woman and an African American boy. It displays how the narrator realizes the bonds they share because of their fear for each other. She starts off by describing the boy as they face each other. She says he has the casual look of a mugger while she’s wearing a fur coat making her seem like the victim. Here they contrast as him looking like a mugger puts him in the lower class. On the other hand‚ she wears a fur coat
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