The Juggler Richard Wilbur Analysis

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In the test “Juggler” by Richard Wilbur, he describes this individual as a god of the juggling trade. He makes the performance into a process where he carefully grooms the details and puts them on paper in a way that seems more ambiguous than it actually is. This technique implies that the author has great and perpetual admiration for The Juggler and his profession.
Throughout the poem, Wilbur portrays the juggler and his ability as godlike rather than average. The lifeless and very foggy tone of the passage implies that The Juggler has this magical ability to keep those five balls in the air. In stanza two, the author states, “Learning the ways of lightness, alter to spheres,” where it is portrayed that The Juggler has this foreign skill

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