The Sound Of A Memory
Poetry allows people to express their feelings in ways that regular texts cannot. By carefully choosing each word and arranging them on a page, like an artist blending together colors on his canvas, a poet can make readers see, and feel, things that a normal author cannot. Mark Rudman's poem "Chrome," uses carefully chosen words that help to set the pace at which the poem is read aloud. In turn, this tempo helps to create an image, and animate it. Mark Rudman's use of poetic tools create a poem that is strong in imagery. This is because the poem's sounds directly reflect that of the actual events of which Rudman is speaking of.
The opening of Rudman's "Chrome" is read aloud at a ...
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the author sees in his own mind, and a calm feeling is felt throughout the opening lines.
Rudman then throws in some quicker wording to describe the landscape, which is broken up into short, incomplete ideas with commas. He introduces a multitude of ideas when he describes, "Hills leeched of color,// the desert a kind of form,// with rimrock and succulents and gulches// providing borders- boundaries.// Dust and Desire" (651). The above lines are very interesting when you look at the tempo at which they are read. "Hills leeched of color," is on a line by itself and it's followed by a pause. After the pause, a comma, a new idea begins. It is read quickly, and then there is nothing. He repeats the process with, "the desert a kind of form." Both lines are incomplete sentences alone. They are quick flashes of an image which disappears as quickly as it came. The next idea forces readers to pick up the pace a bit because of it's larger length and the pause comes later. This ...
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again against// the rock-studded sand, the danger not in the desert but around it" (651). Again we see alliteration used throughout the quote. The "s" sound in "sweet sixteen," or the "d" in "danger not in the desert," pulls the idea together. And it keeps a steady, smooth sound that is pleasant to the ear. It is not hard to imagine the sound of the tires in the sand, or the harshness of a 2-stroke engine pulling through an otherwise silent landscape. The word sounds are flowing and seamless, just like the bike climbing and descending dune after dune. He continues with "The body's oneness with the mind// on the lean machine seemed just right, the body// soaring while hovering ...
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