Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View
The poems are related from a first-person subjective perspective.
Form and Meter
Because the poems belong to a collection of modernist poems, there is no form and meter.
Metaphors and Similes
The chimney that appears in the poem entitled "Crimson Rambler’’ is used in this poem as a metaphor for the aspirations humans have about the future and about their purpose in life.
The buffalo held immense significance for indigenous communities and played a central role in their cultures and livelihoods. The disappearance of the buffalo herds represents the erosion of a way of life and the loss of cultural traditions.
Alliteration and Assonance
We find alliteration in the poem entitled "Crimson Rambler’’ where the lines begin with the word "Now’’.
Irony
In the poem entitled "Clinton South of Polk’’, the narrator describes a group of children having a fight. The narrator listens to the children arguing in Italian but instead of criticizing them, he, ironically, considers their fighting as being melodic and ready to listen to.
Genre
The poems are meditative poems.
Setting
The poem "Crimson Rambler’’ takes place inside a house. The rest of the poems do not have a fixed setting.
Tone
The tone in some of the poems is a frightened and terrifying one.
Protagonist and Antagonist
In the poem entitled "Crimson Rambler’’ the protagonist is the couple in the poem and the antagonist is the Rambler trying to get inside the house.
Major Conflict
The major conflict in the poem entitled "Jerry’’ is between the wife and her abusive husband. The climax is resolved when the wife kills her husband.
Climax
The poem "Crimson Rambler’’ reaches its climax when the rambler makes his way inside the house.
Foreshadowing
In the poem entitled "Repetitions’’, the first line of the poet where the narrator mentions how the people are crying "salt tears’’ foreshadows the death later mentioned in the poem.
Understatement
When the narrator claims that love is a cheap thing is an understatement because he later mentions how precious love is.
Allusions
In the poem entitled "Kreisler’’, the narrator alludes towards the idea that pain makes art more valuable and makes music to be sweeter.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
The term "copper disk’’ is used here as a general term to make reference to money in general.
Personification
We find personification in the line "dried wood that has ached with passion’’.
Hyperbole
We find a hyperbole in the line "Sell me a fiddle that has kissed dark nights on the forehead where men kiss sisters they love’’.
Onomatopoeia
We find onomatopoeia in the line "They are crying’’ in the poem entitled "Repetitions’’.
