Matthew Sayers
Professor Jared Westover
English 1302
7 October 2015
Poem Evaluation Title
William E. Stafford’s poem, An Oregon Message, goes between talking about the beauty of space exploration and the possible disruptions that the space exploration could have caused. Stafford uses a mix of imagery, anaphora and metaphors among other devices to increase the affect his poem has on the reader. Richard Brautigan’s poem, All Watch Over By Machines of Loving Grace, also talks about the beauty of nature and how rapid advances in technology have affected the world. This topic, “A concern with nature coupled with often surreal and whimsical plots” is one that Brautigan goes to in many of his poems. Brautigan uses very similar literary devices as Stafford for a similar effect. Stafford and Brautigan’s poems both take nature as its main topic. When read at first, the additional subjects of the poem seem to be completely different, but when read with more thought, both poems have more similarity than was first thought.
The first literary device used is anaphora, found in Stafford’s first stanza. He explains that “no one had ever hit the moon–no one” (lines 3, 4). Stafford’s use of anaphora simply highlights the fact that, no one had ever visited the moon before “we first moved here”. This links in with the rest of the point, which I feel is that the …show more content…
The repetition of this phrase highlights just how much Brautigan thinks technology has evolved in such a short space of time. Instead of saying “I like to think of a cybernetic meadow” once, he continuously repeats the first seven words with a different environment to emphasize his point. Both Stafford and Brautigan utilize anaphora well to put the focus on what they want the main point of their poems to
Professor Jared Westover
English 1302
7 October 2015
Poem Evaluation Title
William E. Stafford’s poem, An Oregon Message, goes between talking about the beauty of space exploration and the possible disruptions that the space exploration could have caused. Stafford uses a mix of imagery, anaphora and metaphors among other devices to increase the affect his poem has on the reader. Richard Brautigan’s poem, All Watch Over By Machines of Loving Grace, also talks about the beauty of nature and how rapid advances in technology have affected the world. This topic, “A concern with nature coupled with often surreal and whimsical plots” is one that Brautigan goes to in many of his poems. Brautigan uses very similar literary devices as Stafford for a similar effect. Stafford and Brautigan’s poems both take nature as its main topic. When read at first, the additional subjects of the poem seem to be completely different, but when read with more thought, both poems have more similarity than was first thought.
The first literary device used is anaphora, found in Stafford’s first stanza. He explains that “no one had ever hit the moon–no one” (lines 3, 4). Stafford’s use of anaphora simply highlights the fact that, no one had ever visited the moon before “we first moved here”. This links in with the rest of the point, which I feel is that the …show more content…
The repetition of this phrase highlights just how much Brautigan thinks technology has evolved in such a short space of time. Instead of saying “I like to think of a cybernetic meadow” once, he continuously repeats the first seven words with a different environment to emphasize his point. Both Stafford and Brautigan utilize anaphora well to put the focus on what they want the main point of their poems to