Eating Poetry Analysis

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him and how poetry can literally transform you as a human using this comparison.
The poem also shares its tone with the audience using imagery and word choice. In the first stanza, Strand paints a picture of a crazy looking man with ink running down the corners of his mouth. The image developed in the poem is that the speaker has been emptying the shelves of books in the way dogs would empty shelves of dog food. The first line describes the ink as it ‘runs’ down his mouth. This makes a reader think that he was hungrily eating the poetry. The atmosphere then changes because the poems are gone after they are all eaten. “The light is dim” which is true for a dog because of the fact they only see black and white, not colors like humans. Chaos can be seen in the next few lines with the description of the dogs. The word choice in this stanza illustrates craziness with words such as, ‘eyeballs roll’, ‘burn’, ‘stamp’, and ‘weep.’ All of these words and images help contribute to the ...

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