Tuesday, March 1, 2011

3.1 diction exercise

Words with Pizazz:
rate                      meal
fat                        cocktails
pasture                greener
speedometers     sharp     


Elements of Diction:
Elevation- HIGH: pasture, speedometers, cocktails  MEDIUM: sharp, meal, greener  LOW: fat, rate 
Connotation- Frank O'Hara's poem Animals has a very poetic meaning. Its passionate descriptions show that it is a love poem.
Concretness- This poem is very abstract and hypothetical.

My Claim:
The way Frank O'Hara's compassionate words and phrases seem to jump off the page express the romantic atmosphere that the two lovers are enjoying together.

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