In, “On Not Shoplifting Louise Bogan’s The Blue Estuaries,” Julia Alvarez writes a poem in which the speaker’s hobby of examining poetic books in a bookstore is included. When describing the speaker’s observations and inspired feelings about a specific poem, multiple poetic devices are used to convey the speaker’s complex situation. In, “On Not Shoplifting Louise Bogan’s The Blue Estuaries,” Julia Alvarez uses tone and imagery to present the speaker’s complex discoveries of a originality and a unique poem. Julia Alvarez makes use of an impressed tone to describe the speaker’s discovery of a unique poem. When musing through the texts of poems in the bookstore as the speaker seems to do occasionally, one poem struck them.
“Your book surprised …show more content…
This starts from Julia’s description of the book author’s name, Louise Bogan, sinking underwater,
“The swans posed on a placid lake, your name blurred underwater sinking to the bottom.” (Stanza 1) the grasp of the speaker’s attention is referred to within this imagery. As the author’s name sinks, her urge to grab and observe the book likely increases, the poem seems to have spiked her interest in different ways than other poems usually do. As the poem progresses the speaker’s own passion for writing poems emerges, along with the indication that “The Blue Estuaries” inspires her.
“Page after page, your poems were stirring my own poems-- words rose breaking the surface, shattering an old silence.”
(Stanza 3) This old silence may be the speaker’s deep passion for writing poems, largely reignited by the poem’s style. The description of the surface breaking and the old silence being shattered presents the idea of how the poem book impacted the speaker’s mind in that it encouraged her inner voice of assertiveness and creativity. The speaker realizes that she can implement her own type of originality and vocalness in her own writing and poems just like the poems she encountered in the swan covered poem
“Your book surprised …show more content…
This starts from Julia’s description of the book author’s name, Louise Bogan, sinking underwater,
“The swans posed on a placid lake, your name blurred underwater sinking to the bottom.” (Stanza 1) the grasp of the speaker’s attention is referred to within this imagery. As the author’s name sinks, her urge to grab and observe the book likely increases, the poem seems to have spiked her interest in different ways than other poems usually do. As the poem progresses the speaker’s own passion for writing poems emerges, along with the indication that “The Blue Estuaries” inspires her.
“Page after page, your poems were stirring my own poems-- words rose breaking the surface, shattering an old silence.”
(Stanza 3) This old silence may be the speaker’s deep passion for writing poems, largely reignited by the poem’s style. The description of the surface breaking and the old silence being shattered presents the idea of how the poem book impacted the speaker’s mind in that it encouraged her inner voice of assertiveness and creativity. The speaker realizes that she can implement her own type of originality and vocalness in her own writing and poems just like the poems she encountered in the swan covered poem