Imagery In Sharon Olds On The Subway

In the unique poem “on the subway”, Sharon Olds develops in both portraits in her pottery. The result of this is reader receive an insight of the narrator mind, when it came to that experience. Olds used imagery, tone and to do this. In poem the imagery job was to put reader in the shoe of the young white narrator. Imagery allowed reader to come to a conclusion of why would narrator think like she did. An example of this were in line nine through ten, where narrator claimed that IQ the African American man had a casual, cold, alertness in his eye as if he planned to may her. Another examples is line twenty six through thirty one, as she explained how man can break her back like a stick maybe for vengeance on people that are breaking his.