Ted uses a lot of imagery in his free verse poem “Depression Glass” by using our five senses: see, touch, taste, feel, and hear. In line one, “It seemed those rose-pink dishes”, seems to be the main focus in this poem while they are used for special occasions, they still have an issue keeping something hot, “the plates like the panes of ice”. He used metaphors twice to compare the rose-pink dishes always being cold as ice and the cups’ inability to keep coffee or other beverages hot, “everyday mug would have kept/a splash hot for the better”. I take this as perhaps a regular mug would have been a better choice, but the hostess realized that it would have just clashed with the rest of the set like an eyesore.
He uses the narrative, internal form to give his single, twenty-three lined stanza a short story feel, by including punctuations in the middle of lines three, seven, nine, eleven, fourteen, sixteen, seventeen, and twenty-two. The last line acts an end-stop for the poem to conclude the poem. He writes as if he could see through the character’s eyes and think what the hostess it thinking, enough to create an experience for the reader. The title and the three last lines provide some information to let us know that this was during the late 1920’s in the Great Depression period. These were hard times for everyone and everything had to be rationed, “it had taken a year to collect/at the grocery, with one piece free/for each five pounds of flour.” This goes on to show that even though it took the character a year to collect the dishes, the hostess …show more content…
They chilled”. He repeats the word cold twice in lines 3 and 16 as a reminder of how the dishes felt in one’s hands and the coffee felt on the tongue to realize that a heavy-duty mug would have sufficed just
He uses the narrative, internal form to give his single, twenty-three lined stanza a short story feel, by including punctuations in the middle of lines three, seven, nine, eleven, fourteen, sixteen, seventeen, and twenty-two. The last line acts an end-stop for the poem to conclude the poem. He writes as if he could see through the character’s eyes and think what the hostess it thinking, enough to create an experience for the reader. The title and the three last lines provide some information to let us know that this was during the late 1920’s in the Great Depression period. These were hard times for everyone and everything had to be rationed, “it had taken a year to collect/at the grocery, with one piece free/for each five pounds of flour.” This goes on to show that even though it took the character a year to collect the dishes, the hostess …show more content…
They chilled”. He repeats the word cold twice in lines 3 and 16 as a reminder of how the dishes felt in one’s hands and the coffee felt on the tongue to realize that a heavy-duty mug would have sufficed just