The cuisine of pork and plums, blends the theme of food in, “Ode to Pork” by Kevin Young and “The Word Plum” by Helen Chasin, and are displayed through tone, assonance, and imagery. First on the menu, poet Young writes a love letter to all things pork, and takes us into his taste buds through assonance. Lastly on the menu, poet Chasin takes readers into her mind on binging plums, and tosses onomatopoeia and imagery to depict her sense of eating plums. In “Ode to Pork,” Kevin Young sings an ode that hands the reader a menu of assonance that swallows us into Young’s dire affection for eating all things pork. Subsequently, Young uses words with sounds to emphasize his desperation for eating pork. “Babe, I revere your every nickname—bacon, chitlin
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In the first line, Chasin starts basic, “The world plum is delicious.” This sets the imagery of romance and pure affection for plums. In addition, the “c” and “s” of “delicious” (Line 1 Stanza 1) squeezes a juicy sound, like a ripe plum being snacked on. Likewise, the plum being described as, delicious cooks up a significant role in Chasin’s imagery. Moreover, and cooks up a significant role in Chasin’s imagery of eating a plum. Moreover, the lines in the second stanza, “pout and push, luxury ofself-love, and savoring murmur" (line 2 stanza 2) Assonance are being introduced in the second stanza, explaining why the plum in the poem is so delicious, and creates the image of the fuzzy and delicate skin of the plum. Furthermore, Chasin dishes the delicious plum through more imagery, making the plum more vivid and detailed, "pierced, bitten, provoked intojuice, and tart flesh" Chasin describes the surface of the plum, and the mouth in motion through the words sprouts a better understanding, of the particular plum the poet is describing. Lastly, on the last line, “Question and reply, lip and tongue of pleasure.” Describes the tone of affection Chasin has for a plum. Consequently, Chasin’s taboo affection for the plum she is eating is so fascinating, that there are over 2,000 varieties of plums, and 90 billion individual plums in the …show more content…
For example, the poems vividly uses assonance to add action and mood that rolls off the tongue. Since food is an action, the writers for both poems hands the work to the reader. “Vowel sounds can be grouped into high and low sounds, depending on where the tongue is in the mouth when they're produced. For instance, 'I' in 'fish' is high, whilst 'u' in 'tub' is low. Oftentimes, assonance, effects are produced in poetry by grouping a lot of high vowels or a lot of low vowels,” (explore writing) Lastly, the theme of food and romance creates a tone of affection. To add on, Chasin and Young have a special relationship to the food they love, and they cook it up real well. “Poems from well known poets who have written verses on food, but also food poems from unskilled , inexperienced writers who have the incommensurable gift of unspoiled naivety. Food and its literal, metaphorical, surrealistic and dreamy significance.” (Butler) In conclusion, the theme of food are established in an exciting and playful tone, that opens the oven door and let the aroma of adventure to begin. Comparatively, food is a physical relationship that these poets have, and they express that through physical
In the first line, Chasin starts basic, “The world plum is delicious.” This sets the imagery of romance and pure affection for plums. In addition, the “c” and “s” of “delicious” (Line 1 Stanza 1) squeezes a juicy sound, like a ripe plum being snacked on. Likewise, the plum being described as, delicious cooks up a significant role in Chasin’s imagery. Moreover, and cooks up a significant role in Chasin’s imagery of eating a plum. Moreover, the lines in the second stanza, “pout and push, luxury ofself-love, and savoring murmur" (line 2 stanza 2) Assonance are being introduced in the second stanza, explaining why the plum in the poem is so delicious, and creates the image of the fuzzy and delicate skin of the plum. Furthermore, Chasin dishes the delicious plum through more imagery, making the plum more vivid and detailed, "pierced, bitten, provoked intojuice, and tart flesh" Chasin describes the surface of the plum, and the mouth in motion through the words sprouts a better understanding, of the particular plum the poet is describing. Lastly, on the last line, “Question and reply, lip and tongue of pleasure.” Describes the tone of affection Chasin has for a plum. Consequently, Chasin’s taboo affection for the plum she is eating is so fascinating, that there are over 2,000 varieties of plums, and 90 billion individual plums in the …show more content…
For example, the poems vividly uses assonance to add action and mood that rolls off the tongue. Since food is an action, the writers for both poems hands the work to the reader. “Vowel sounds can be grouped into high and low sounds, depending on where the tongue is in the mouth when they're produced. For instance, 'I' in 'fish' is high, whilst 'u' in 'tub' is low. Oftentimes, assonance, effects are produced in poetry by grouping a lot of high vowels or a lot of low vowels,” (explore writing) Lastly, the theme of food and romance creates a tone of affection. To add on, Chasin and Young have a special relationship to the food they love, and they cook it up real well. “Poems from well known poets who have written verses on food, but also food poems from unskilled , inexperienced writers who have the incommensurable gift of unspoiled naivety. Food and its literal, metaphorical, surrealistic and dreamy significance.” (Butler) In conclusion, the theme of food are established in an exciting and playful tone, that opens the oven door and let the aroma of adventure to begin. Comparatively, food is a physical relationship that these poets have, and they express that through physical