Literary Elements

     In the Linda Hogan poem “ Workday” she tells you how her day goes from the time she leaves to the time gets home. Linda has visual imagery throughout the poem like describing what people look like to what their body functions are when they are on the bus. The workday poem is tight so the reader senses that she has a lot of emotions bottled up inside that has not let go. Linda talks about how “her sisters are chained to a prison bed”(224)and how “her family is grieving over a lost child”. (224) The poem really has a hidden meaning that she dryads going to work because it reminds her of what it used to be like when she was young. That is in means of allegory.

     In Tom Waymans Poem “Did I Miss Anything” they go on telling the person who missed class what they talked about and how the class went. In “take as many days off as you like”(226) is a form of metaphor, some people could take that seriously and some take it as a joke and come to class when they are the only ones there. One of the students is using diction to get the point across on what they had to do. The reading of the book and a quiz over it and took an exam that was only worth 40%. You can also tell when the student was talking to when the teacher was talking, when the student was talking it would be indented and when the teacher was talking it would not be indented.