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Nobody loses all the time Poem analysis
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Poem about how in the process of human struggle we can find a purpose in the face of failure and loss. It is inevitable.Death is a reoccurring idea→ Speakers attitude towards death is optimistic and accepting.
Poem is a slice-of-life
With continues effort, success will certainly come. narrative about an uncle who
Foreshadows the ending as there is
no body of Uncle Sol. He died.
Nobody loses all the time fails.
Optimistic tone.
nobody loses all the time
Anecdote→ telling a story.
i had an uncle named
Sol who was a born failure and His failure was widely acknowledged and accepted.
Shows that everyone has the potential to be special,
nearly everybody said he should have gone but you must search for your calling.
Type of entertainment
into vaudeville perhaps because my Uncle Sol could
sing McCann He Was A Diver on Xmas Eve like Hell Itself which
Uncertainty may or may not account for the fact that my Uncle His singing was an
expression of his pain and
unforgiveable suffering.
Sol indulged in that possibly most inexcusable
pretentious Describes how farming is a pretentious (flashy) luxury. IRONIC as
of all to use a highfalootin phrase
it is not
luxuries that is or to
wit farming and be
it needlessly His attempt at farming could be predicted.
added
Domino Effect → Sol seems adaptable. If one thing fails, he starts another.
my Uncle Sol’s farm
failed because the chickens
ate the vegetables so
my Uncle Sol had a
chicken farm till the
skunks ate the chickens when
my Uncle Sol
had a skunk farm but Alliteration provides a sharp sound linking to the death of the skunks.
the skunks caught cold and
died and so Uncle Sol has accepted his fate.
my Uncle Sol imitated the
skunks in a subtle manner
Words not associated with a funeral.
Morbid/ Macabre tone
or by drowning himself in the watertank
but somebody who’d given my Uncle Sol a Victor
Victrola and records while he lived presented to Ironic as death is not regarded as good/holy-
him upon the auspicious occasion of his decease a however in this case it is a triumph for Uncle Sol.
Neologism
scrumptious not to mention splendiferous funeral with
tall boys in black gloves and flowers and everything and
i remember we all cried like the Missouri SIMILE → They cried so hard that their tears flowed like a river
in the USA. HYPERBOLE →largest river in the country.
when my Uncle Sol’s coffin lurched because
somebody pressed a button
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