Concrete Mixers Figurative Language

Authors can completely transform the way somebody understands what is happening throughout the poem using figurative language. The strong use of figurative language in these poems truly helps the reader have a deeper connection with the story. In the poem Concrete Mixers by Patricia Hubbell, she uses figurative language to help paint a picture in the reader’s mind. On the second line, it states “Like elephant tenders as they hose them down”. The author uses similes in the poem and uses the word like to compare some qualities of one thing to another. In the same poem, Concrete Mixers, the author uses a metaphor to help the reader understand the poem better, written in the fourth stanza, it says “Concrete mixers are urban elephants”. The author uses a metaphor to explain that one thing is another, and showing how similar they can be without using the words like or as.

In a poem written by Richard Garcia, called The City Is So Big, the author helps create images in the reader’s mind using figurative language, on the second line it states “Its bridges quake with fear”.

The poem starts off with a solid use of personification to help the reader follow the story being told by the use of figurative language. The same poem by Richard, The City Is So Big, he uses personification to help give the reader an even better glimpse of what is happening, later on in the poem, it says “I have seen machines eating houses”. By using the personification in the poem, it gives the reader a strong sense of imagery and it gives us a good mental picture of what is happening in the

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In the final poem by Emily Dickinson, called The Sky is Low, The Clouds are Mean, the author helps explain things very well by including figurative language, the first line says “The sky is low, the clouds are mean”. Emily begins the poem with a line using personification to give something a human quality and giving it more of a human-like behavior so we can relate to it. The final use of figurative language is in the same poem and it gives a good final example of personification, in the second stanza it says “A narrow wind complains all day”. This example of personification on this line is giving the wind a human-like behavior and this helps us make a connection with the poem to help us comprehend what is being stated. Authors use a lot of different ways to help the reader interpret a story, and a lot of times they us figurative language.Using figurative language, authors can transform the way that the reader understands a poem.