Tuesday, March 1, 2011

3.1 diction thingy for "At north farm"

A) traveling, toward, you, goes, sky, speed, thing, has, piled.

B) Elevation: Medium, imminent.
Connotation: Poetic
Sound: More musical than harsh, almost sounds like an airplane flying at top speed low to the ground.
Concreteness: About in the middle.

C) I feel that John Ashbery, in his poem "At North Farm", is using routine and mellow diction to inform about the imminence of life. By this, I mean that one decision someone makes on the other side of the world can make its way here and affect you. His use of imagery in the second half of the poem describing the farm almost stings the reader's mind into a sanguine and accepting mood. The first half seals your own fate while the second helps you forget about it.

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