Tahquamenon Falls Analysis

The poem that I pick to be a candidate for this contest call, “The Best Poem in the World” is call “Tahquamenon Falls” by Denise Rodgers. I pick this free verse poem which is compose of mostly using rhyming couplets, and with no set meter to be my entry for this contest because it uses a lot of the literary devices that we have talk about in this week. Starting off with the first stanza of this poem. In the starting line of this poem, it uses literal imagery to tell the readers to imagine some rushing water. In addition to this, in the second and third lines of this poem. Rodgers uses some interesting words, which were “gushing” and “pushing” which caused me to change my image in my head, which was sink faucet with water flowing out of it, to a fast moving river. This is further justified why my image got changed to a fast moving river instead of sink faucet with water flowing out of it, was when Rodgers wrote, “Water barrels off the ledge whipping up the bottom sludge”. Here, Rodgers is …show more content…
The poet Rodgers adds in a consonance when he wrote, “And will never, ever stop”. Here, the words never and ever both end with an “err” sound, and I think the poet did this because he is suggesting that the rushing water is too strong to be stopped. In addition to this, I think that the rushing water could symbolize strength due to the facts that, the rushing water is strong enough to never stop, and it growls like freight train's roar as it wildly rushes thought stuff too. In the end lines of this poem, Rodgers uses personification when he wrote, “Gives it just another try”. This is an example of personification because water cannot give anything a try in the first place. In the end, I believe that this poem “Tahquamenon Falls” by Denise Rodgers can be the best poem in the world, due to it possessing many of literary devices that we talked about this week in it, and also it paints a strong image of a river flowing