“On the Subway”, by Sharon Olds shares with us the readers the similarities and differences in the poem between the life of a Caucasian person and that of an African American person. Sharon Olds uses a variety of literary techniques such as a tone, poetic devices, imagery, and organization. You can see very clear the literary terms used as follows. Sharon Olds utilizes a lot of imagery in the poem, most vividly dark and light as well as animals to contrast the two characters she uses in the poem. For example, in line eleven “I am wearing dark fur” shows us an image in our mind of the skin from one of the characters. The character is described with a dark skin color by saying the words "dark fur" in the sentence. This kind of phrases
