In “The Juggler,” Richard Wilbur incorporates imagery, figurative language, and tone to describe the juggler which reveals the analystic attitude of of the speaker. The speaker analyzes every movement of the juggler and explains his thoughts behind them.
Wilbur incorporates imagery and tone in his description of the juggler to make a revelation about the speaker. “Learning the ways of lightness, alter to spheres grazing his finger ends.” The speaker notices how the juggler is very delicate and precise while tossing the balls. This helps reveal that the speaker analyzes even the slightest things in a situation by showing how small touches can be picked up. “Falling is what it loves, and the earth falls sp on our hearts from brilliance, settles and is forgot.” This slight comparison reveals that the speaker sees a…show more content… The metaphor, “swinging a small heaven about his ears. But a heaven is easier made of nothing at all than the earth regained…” reveals the pessimism strongly. The speaker believes that a heaven is better created from scratch than directly from what earth can provide. This could be due to the world containing many evils that the speaker has witnessed. Similarly, the speaker says, “For him we batter our hands who has one for once over the world’s weight.” The use of alliteration here emphasizes the “world’s weight.” The speaker believes that the world’s weight and the negatives of it have kept the juggler down from winning.
In “The Juggler,” the speaker is revealed to be a pessimistic analyst. This is revealed through the use of figurative language, tone, and imagery. The speaker has possibly seen negative things in life and shows this when analyzing the juggler’s actions. The speaker mentions these things during the celebration for the act that he witnessed, concluding that the juggler has finally, “won for once over the world’s
