In Richard Wilbur poem, “The Juggler,” a juggler’s profession is not just to entertain others, but to serve as a way of escapism for many. Vivid imagery and various examples of figurative language are used to describe the juggler as someone who is capable of bending reality, while also revealing the speaker’s belief that simple, trivial tasks can be a liberating break from their mundane lives. To begin, the speaker describes and exaggerates the effect the juggling has on the audience by saying “To shake our gravity up” (Wilbur 7). Through this phrase, the speaker is implying that the juggler appears to have immense power to be able to shake the audience. This reveals just how entertaining the juggler can be as he can easily capture the attention
