Literacy devices
"People are made of places", without using like or as to compare human identities to environments.
What is a metaphor?
In the poem, there is no consistent rhyme or meter, so it flows naturally like speaking.
What is a free verse?
Rural people carry "acres of pine woods" and "blueberry patches" appeal to this sense.
What is visual imagery?
The poem's core message, about how environments define people.
What is people are made of places?
The poem uses urban "crowded" subways against rural "pine woods" using parallel descriptions.
What is juxtaposition/contrast?
Lines would often run without pause about rural descriptions, suggesting expansive feel of nature.
What is enjambment?
Urban "smell of smog" and "smell of subways crowded at rush hours" appeal to this sense.
What is olfactory imagery?
The speaker contrasts the artificial urban environment with a contradiction with pine woods and farmhouses.
What is rural/countryside/nature?
The poem concludes with a rhyme, "blows" and "snow"
What is a rhyming couplet?
"Glue factories maybe", there was a comma before that, which insinuates thinking.
What is caesura?
"Hens and chickens circle about, clucking aimlessly" adheres to what sense?
What is auditory imagery?
What is tactile imagery?