The leash, is a poem about a man and his dog outside taking a walk. During their walk he analyzes his surroundings and describes his journey. /After the birthing of bombs of forks and fears/ as he is describing the horrible event that took place makes you think he may have survived a war? OR a metaphor of a tragic that took place in his life. In this poem he describes the tragic events but does not exactly say the event that has taken place. /The country plummets into a crepitating crater of hatred, isn’t there something still singing? / Is Ada referring to the people of this country through her poem or is she describing her thoughts through the man in the poem? The dog is a on a leash bolts towards the moving truck, thankfully for the leash
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/The hidden nowhere river is poisoned/. He describes this hidden river as humanity. He debates on if he wants to suck the venom water, because he feels there is nothing left. When the reader says, “don’t die” this symbolizes his inner self telling him to keep hope, he can make it through the next challenge as the poem says, /But sometimes, I swear I hear it the wound closing like a rusted over garage door and I can still move my living limbs into the world without too much pain. / This phrase supports the fact that the man still has hope he knows he is battling his own worst enemy and …show more content…
He knows if he pulls the leash the dog will be out of the way of the moving truck. He whispers to her not to die. Winter is coming, he describes the dog as her cold corpse being in the ground when winter approaches. Will winter be the end? Is that when he will lose his safety net? He is begging for love from his dog for the brief time they do have together and until then, /we can walk together peacefully, at least until the next truck comes. / The truck symbolizes another challenge that they will need to overcome, an obstacle.
In the poem Ada uses many imagery phrases to paint a picture of what the man is seeing with his dog. She uses specific detail, so the readers can understand the feelings and emotions that the man is feeling. Especially when he is questioning on drinking the venom water. Reading that part of the poem with the wording that is used, it’s like you’re in his mind. Sensory details in this poem make the understanding clearer in the theme, the leash.
The sound patterns in the poem do not rhyme. Instead she uses a free verse that is told in a story font. Ada uses more simile in the poem rather than metaphors. When you read the poem she has a beat, a slow beat rather than a fast going paced of words that rhyme. In each of the sentences there are sensory details within every other sentence that ties them
/The hidden nowhere river is poisoned/. He describes this hidden river as humanity. He debates on if he wants to suck the venom water, because he feels there is nothing left. When the reader says, “don’t die” this symbolizes his inner self telling him to keep hope, he can make it through the next challenge as the poem says, /But sometimes, I swear I hear it the wound closing like a rusted over garage door and I can still move my living limbs into the world without too much pain. / This phrase supports the fact that the man still has hope he knows he is battling his own worst enemy and …show more content…
He knows if he pulls the leash the dog will be out of the way of the moving truck. He whispers to her not to die. Winter is coming, he describes the dog as her cold corpse being in the ground when winter approaches. Will winter be the end? Is that when he will lose his safety net? He is begging for love from his dog for the brief time they do have together and until then, /we can walk together peacefully, at least until the next truck comes. / The truck symbolizes another challenge that they will need to overcome, an obstacle.
In the poem Ada uses many imagery phrases to paint a picture of what the man is seeing with his dog. She uses specific detail, so the readers can understand the feelings and emotions that the man is feeling. Especially when he is questioning on drinking the venom water. Reading that part of the poem with the wording that is used, it’s like you’re in his mind. Sensory details in this poem make the understanding clearer in the theme, the leash.
The sound patterns in the poem do not rhyme. Instead she uses a free verse that is told in a story font. Ada uses more simile in the poem rather than metaphors. When you read the poem she has a beat, a slow beat rather than a fast going paced of words that rhyme. In each of the sentences there are sensory details within every other sentence that ties them