Comparative Poetry Analysis
Summer Chatos Hour 1
♥ Introduction ♥
Tone and Word Choice
In the poem Tornato at Talladega the poets attitude toward the subjet is that he has respect/fear of the poems subject. He is sorry for the trees in the tornato it has sad and tragic words and phrases throughout the whole poem such as "line 8" or "lines 11-13"
Figurative Language
Throughout the whole poem it's mainly a metaphor about how the most sweet/innocent things in life. In "lines 6-9" it shows a part of the metaphor about how the most innocent things can be the most harmful. It talks about mangoes, avocados, and bananas flying into town like projectiles. That isn't very normal to see bananas or avocados flying into the air to harm people. Some things can happen like that during a big storm.
"Tornado at Talladega" During the poem there is a lot of personification especially during stanza 2. In "lines 11-13" it was giving a lot of personification about the trees it was saying that roots origins we're exploding and in the road that "twig-strewn" and "leaf strewn" we're lying there in the road. Then in "lines 1-4" it was saying about the bird reporting the storm and what came through to do some landscaping.
Format
"Tornado at Talladega" During this poem there are uneven stanzas and free verse and there is one line alone.