Makayla McAuliff Mr. Hall Hon English 9B - 5 13 May 2024 “Oranges” Analysis Rough Draft Poems hold so much significance in their words, however, that substantialness is usually within hidden meanings and puzzles. This way, the author can describe their feelings in a deeper way. So, what are some deep feelings one can find? One that can be seen as straightforward and only means what it says is the poem “Oranges,” by Gary Soto. In the poem, the speaker, Gary Soto, writes about his first girlfriend that he took out. He took her to a store and she picked something that cost more than what he had, so he paid with an orange and his money. His love for her was bright and it was as if he was “making a fire” in his hands. Though it seems pretty straight forward, there are several forms of techniques to make the meaning of the poem hidden but deeper when …show more content…
The similes used by the author, Gary Soto, are mainly used for the purpose of giving the audience a visual of what a specific scenery looks like. He expresses how the “fog [was] hanging like old coats between the trees”, giving the audience a visualization of what the fog looked like that day, and when he “turned to the candies tiered like bleachers”, it gives the audience visualization of how the candies were set up. These similes are important to set the scene for the reader so that they can understand the importance of the other phrases used to provide a deeper sense of emotion. Soto also uses personification to give the audience the scene. In the poem he captures “a few cars hissing past”, in order to give the audience an idea of what the cars sounded like when they were driving past. Setting the scene for the audience is very important to helping them understand what it was like physically, which feeds into the emotions that may take
John McPhee used similes throughout his essay “Under the Snow”. One of his similes was him describing how a researcher put the bear in a doughnut shape. It was to explain to the audience that the bear was wrapped around with room between her legs for the bear cubs to lay when they are in hibernation. He describes the movement of the bears and the bear cubs like clowns coming out of a compact car. The similes help the audience see how the moved and how they were placed after the researcher moved them.
It shows that similes have to be compared universally so everyone can understand. This poem is a really funny read and I
At the beginning of the poem, the speaker starts by telling the reader the place, time and activity he is doing, stating that he saw something that he will always remember. His description of his view is explained through simile for example “Ripe apples were caught like red fish in the nets of their branches” (Updike), captivating the reader’s attention
In the story canyons it’s showing the two characters point of views, also the author of the book uses simile and descriptive language to help reader understand these two techniques. The book canyons show what a simile is by comparing two things to each other and descriptive language is describing something. The author of the book is showing these two techniques to help the readers understand what is happening during the story and the events that are
There are multiple examples of visual imagery in this poem. An example of a simile is “curled like a possum within the hollow trunk”. The effect this has is the way it creates an image for the reader to see how the man is sleeping. An example of personification is, “yet both belonged to the bush, and now are one”. The result this has is how it creates an emotion for the reader to feel
The poem opens upon comparisons, with lines 3 through 8 reading, “Ripe apples were caught like red fish in the nets/ of their branches. The maples/ were colored like apples,/part orange and red, part green./ The elms, already transparent trees,/ seemed swaying vases full of sky.” The narrator’s surroundings in this poem illustrate him; and the similes suggest that he is not himself, and instead he acts like others. Just as the maples are colored like apples, he
For example, He says “The barbed wire encircled us like a wall…”(11). He is trying to compare barbed wire to a wall. He wants us to imagine it was a wall and that's what it felt like for them but he always turned it into a positive because he felt they were now part of a small Jewish republic. In addition, He also said “Monday went down like a small summer cloud, like a dream in the first hours of dawn.”(18). He trying to tell us that monday felt short by describing what it literally felt like but it wasn’t actually. Emotions can get really high in times this and things start to feel different . Similes were a way for the author to express his feelings to the
Imagery is a grandiose part of this poem, simile’s help the reader to comprehend the enhanced pace fast break of this poem. (L.6) “gathering the orange leather from air a cherished possession” gives the reader an image of just how essential the ball is, and that he is control of the situation. Whenever I get a chance to get a rebound like he did, I take it. It is a feeling of hard work pays off when you get the chance to get a rebound. Another example of a simile, (L.18) “ in slow motion , almost exactly like a coach’s drawing on a blackboard’
I chose to do my poem analysis on Oranges by Gary Soto. When I first read the title, I predicted that it was going to simply be about oranges and what characteristics it has. Instead, it was about a young boy who talks about the first time he went on a walk with a girl he liked. They walk to a local drugstore and he buys her a chocolate with everything he has: a nickel and an orange. It ends with them walking hand-in-hand and proceeding to the point where they stop and separately eat the orange and chocolate. In the end, it shows the significance of the title which is that he sacrificed one of his beloved oranges for the girl he admired. Gary Soto is known for being an American poet, novelist, and memoirist. Memoirist definitely shows throughout
He uses personifications specifically in this poem to write about what is going on and to describe things. “It's a hard life where the sun looks”(19)...”And its black strip of highway, big eyed/with rabbits that won’t get across ”(2)...”A pot bangs and water runs in the kitchen” (13) None of these are really human body parts on things such as the sun, a pot, or a highway, but they help describe what something does or what something looks like. In the first instance, the sun cannot actually look at something, but it could mean that the sun is visible to the humans, and if humans are out for a long time in the sun, they can get hot and exhausted. For the second line, the big-eyed highway could mean that the highway has many cars with bright headlights that are dangerous for the rabbits, the immigrants, to get across. For the third and final line, pots are not able to bang things on their own, and it could have possibly been a human who made the pot bang, preparing the meal of beans and brown soup that they survive on. There is also a simile in this poem, “Papa's field that wavered like a mirage” (24). This simile could suggest that the wind is moving the grass or crops on his father’s field and looked like an optical illusion. According to Gale Virtual Reference Library, the literary device, “tone” is used to convey the significant change of the author’s feeling in the poem. In the beginning lines, the tone is happy. The poem talks about nostalgia of when he was little, “They leap barefoot to the store. Sweetness on their tongues, red stain of laughter (5-6). (GVRL) These lines illustrate the nostalgia and happy times of Gary Soto’s life when he was probably a child. However, after line 11, the tone becomes more of a negative one. Soto later talks about Farm Laborers and how the job was not a great one. After line 19, a brighter
In the first paragraph similes and personification are used to show how his mental state is beginning to show change. In a flashback he remembers the first time he thought for himself “The night I kicked the pill bottle in the dark, like kicking a buried mine” (Bradbury 1). In this scene he starts to realize that there is something wrong with his society. How it was no big deal the his wife, Mildred had just tried to kill herself. His views on everything about society changed this night. He realizes that he wan...
The passage of the simile is the first verse paragraph following several prose paragraphs. The structure of the verse is loose in following rhythmic or syllabic patterns. Although the form does not have any specific significance to the content, perhaps it is written in verse to sound somewhat poetic. Because the scene is very descriptive and dramatic, it is fitting to write it in a poem-like structure rather than simple prose.
“While, like a snake on coals, she twinged and/ twired.” (2), gives me a descriptive picture of how her body is moving. Another example I found is “Old men, like little children, laugh with glee.” (11). This simile is comparing the old men’s laugh to the way a child laughs. When the author used this simile, it gave me a different feeling about the poem. These men are giddy, and I am not entirely sure why. Yes, I find this poem confusing, but the author did a great job of describing this little interaction. I can clearly see what is going on in the poem. I’m just having some trouble putting it all together to make
To begin, the reader may gather that the poem has a very dark and saddened tone. Due to Lowell's vivid imagery, a mental image of a dark urban setting is created. It also seems very cold, with the mentioning of wind and nighttime. Readers may be able to relate to urban places they know, adding to the reality of the poem. Connections can be made. The imagery is left in such a way that the reader can fill in the gaps with their own memories or settings. Also, since the poem uses free verse, the structure is left open to interpretation. This makes the poem more inviting and easier to interpret, rather than reading it as a riddle. However, though simple in imagery, the poem still captures the reader's interest due to the creation it sparks, yet it never strays away from the theme of bei...
With this being said Heaney uses similes and denotations throughout his poem to put in a sense of tone in the poem to help the readers get a better understanding of what the people were going through when they would see soldiers walking about. According to Dictionary.com (“Simile”, 2016). “A simile is a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared.” This is being used in line 18 where it says “standing there like youngsters” (Heaney, n.d.). This interprets how men working would pause and observe what was going on and the soldiers marching by just like kids would do when they see something remarkable. Heaney also uses Denotation. Which according to Dictionary.com, “Denotation is the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression, as distinguished from the ideas or meanings associated with it or suggested by it.” This is being showed in the poem throughout various lines. It’s being showed when he writes, “They would have heard the screaming, / Then heard it stop and had a view of us / In our gloves and aprons / coming down the hill” (lines 6-9), this evokes an image showing that what is being told and said is what is truly happening. That the soldiers were so close to them that they could hear the slightest scream of a pig being