The Job Interview Poem Analysis

When a person first meets an individual, they may judge and/or criticize a person based on their appearance and actions; however, they know nothing about that individual’s lifestyle and what they are going through. In the poem “The Job Interview” by Darcie Dennigan, Dennigan portrays the character by having a job at a church, but the character does not have faith; however, she claims is good job; once the reader continues the rest of the poem, we are led to believe that she does not like her job. In comparison to Keetje Kuipers “Drought,” Kuipers portrays a character to be living a good life speaking of dandelions, but we find out that the allusion that Kuipers creates is not one that a normal person would imagine just by reading the first line. For these reasons, “The Job Interview” is a more dynamic poem that caught my attention in ways that one could never imagine. Dennigan and Kuipers use similar techniques to set the figurative language and the tone of each piece of writing. Both authors form their poems using …show more content…
Dennigan creates a greater allusion, which allows the reader to read deeper into the poem to get a bigger meaning which impacts the reader’s life. Both stories incorporate figurative language, but Dennigan uses the language in a positive manner that impacts the life of the reader. I do not tend to interpret poems because I do not understand them, but Dennigan wrote her poem in a manner that helped me to understand the poem because of her use of diction, allusions, lineation, and syntax. Dennigan connects her poems to today’s social normativity, which helps me as the reader to relate to the poem and that causes a connection between the reader and the poem. After reading this poem, a life lasting impression has been left on one’s life and they will always remember it for Dennigans use of