Ballade of Worldly Wealth
The subject of this poem is money. Throughout the poem, the author talks about money and what it means to certain people. The author is also the speaker of the poem and he overall sets a negative feeling towards money. The way the author speaks makes me to believe that the author is speaking to people he knows, that he is speaking from watching people change and act out because of money. The setting of the poem is perhaps in the 1800’s in a small town. In this poem, he author uses many examples of assonances. An assonance is a sound used in poetry in which vowel sounds of words are are repeated. For instance, Andrew lang writes, “Like the Good, and truth like lies.” It occurs again in line 4,
The subject of this poem is money. Throughout the poem, the author talks about money and what it means to certain people. The author is also the speaker of the poem and he overall sets a negative feeling towards money. The way the author speaks makes me to believe that the author is speaking to people he knows, that he is speaking from watching people change and act out because of money. The setting of the poem is perhaps in the 1800’s in a small town. In this poem, he author uses many examples of assonances. An assonance is a sound used in poetry in which vowel sounds of words are are repeated. For instance, Andrew lang writes, “Like the Good, and truth like lies.” It occurs again in line 4,