The Juggler is a poem written by Richard Wilbur in 1949. While illustrating an animated juggler and his talents, Richard Wilbur uses imagery and figurative language to reveal that the speaker thoroughly enjoys the juggler’s act.
This piece expresses the juggler’s performance through descriptive imagery and conveys that the speaker takes pleasure in what the juggler does. For example, “it takes a sky-blue juggler with five red balls to shake our gravity up”(5-10). The author depicts the juggler in a vivid image, which portrays how attentive the author is to the juggler— this expresses that the author himself enjoys the performance because he takes note in what the juggler is doing, and what he is wearing. But doing so, the author reveals that paying attention to the performance and enjoying …show more content…
For example, “A light-hearted thing . . . falling is what it loves”(5). Through these metaphors, the author describes how the ball joyfully falls at the whim of the juggler, and by describing it as a “light-hearted thing” it further illustrates how the juggler’s act is a positive one in the eyes of the speaker. This reveals how the speaker enjoys the performance because he uses metaphors to illuminate how the balls “love to fall,” due to the juggler, and how they are “light-hearted things.” If they were “heavy things,” however, it would give the image of a difficult performance— but this is not the case of the juggler. The speaker uses that metaphor to depict how easy, how happy, and how delightful the act was, thus illustrating how much he loves the performance. In other words, the speaker is revealed to enjoy the performance because he uses figurative language to further the joyfulness of the juggler’s performance. This reveals that the speaker enjoys the act because the metaphors make a reference to how the balls love to fall, and how they are “light-hearted
This piece expresses the juggler’s performance through descriptive imagery and conveys that the speaker takes pleasure in what the juggler does. For example, “it takes a sky-blue juggler with five red balls to shake our gravity up”(5-10). The author depicts the juggler in a vivid image, which portrays how attentive the author is to the juggler— this expresses that the author himself enjoys the performance because he takes note in what the juggler is doing, and what he is wearing. But doing so, the author reveals that paying attention to the performance and enjoying …show more content…
For example, “A light-hearted thing . . . falling is what it loves”(5). Through these metaphors, the author describes how the ball joyfully falls at the whim of the juggler, and by describing it as a “light-hearted thing” it further illustrates how the juggler’s act is a positive one in the eyes of the speaker. This reveals how the speaker enjoys the performance because he uses metaphors to illuminate how the balls “love to fall,” due to the juggler, and how they are “light-hearted things.” If they were “heavy things,” however, it would give the image of a difficult performance— but this is not the case of the juggler. The speaker uses that metaphor to depict how easy, how happy, and how delightful the act was, thus illustrating how much he loves the performance. In other words, the speaker is revealed to enjoy the performance because he uses figurative language to further the joyfulness of the juggler’s performance. This reveals that the speaker enjoys the act because the metaphors make a reference to how the balls love to fall, and how they are “light-hearted