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Diction And Imagery In A Work Of Artifice
The poem I read was A Work of Artifice. The poem begins with describing a bonsai tree as beautiful and being nurtured and protected from everything outside in the world and that it could grow immensely if it were free but could get struck down easily. In line two of A Work of Artifice, it says “Attractive pot” sarcasm is shown and in line three there is a hyperbole of the bonsai tree saying “Could have grown eighty feet tall” A Work of Artifice uses a lot of diction and imagery. Some examples of diction are “pruned” “crippled” and “attractive pot” The diction is somehow connected to gardening and the belittling of women. The imagery is mainly focused on the bonsai tree and how it's not able to reach its full capacity. There's a lot of gender
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