'The Sloth\r'

'Sek Budapest International School English serve no. 1 Poetry analysis phone call Yuan Shan 15. 01. 10 The poetry analysis of The acedia by Theodore Roethke The title of the poesy ‘the sloth’ tells us that the poem is probably closely the animal, that lives in in the south America. It’s probably a poem for kids to read. In the first stanza the poet is talking about slowness. If you ask him something it takes him a year to realize that he’d been asked something. adjoining it says that all he does is hang on a tree upside down. Then it says that no return you call him smug or insult him, he doesn’t care. He will still go by doing what he did before.\r\nIn the last stanza he’s sleeping again swaying by his toes and precisely win’t bother to answer your question. But you just know that he knows he knows. Every poem has another meaning beyond the literal one. In this poem the poet writes ‘he’ for an animal and not â €˜it’, so actually he’s not unfeignedly talking about animals. He’s referring to sluggish humans. Throughout the whole poem the poet was describing a otiose somebody. They’re self-satisfied, that’s why they never tilt their behavior. One way of achieving the qualities and making the intelligences poetic is through poetic devices. It’s the technique or strategy a poet uses.\r\nIt can help the poet or writer in developing cogent, e. g. the figures of speech. The poet was criticizing lazy mint scarce he didn’t write it so obviously. He used metaphor. The poet withal gives human characteristics to the sloth which is personification. For example: â€Å"he says, he thinks…”. â€Å"He thinks about it for a Year”. The poet is exaggerating here, which is a hyperbole. He also uses capital letters. This makes a rhythm, patterns of vocalise. In addition the word EX-as-per-at-ing is divided into syllables to emphasi ze the word and call especial(a) attention to it. All lines rhyme in the poem.\r\nThe sound of the last part of the word is identical in each stanza, so it’s a consummate(a) rhyme. The tone of the poem could have been mean but he made it funny and friendly. The poet compared the lazy batch to the lazy animals. The image I got after reading material it a couple of times, is a stinky person watching TV on the couch age drinking coke and eating popcorn. They won’t even do the basic things for living or to stay clean. They’re too lazy to do anything. They’re happy with the way they are. So the tooth root of the poem is laziness. Bibliography http://ezinearticles. com/? Poetic-Devices-in-Poetry&id=110584 Total number of words : 438\r\n'