Question

1. In the poem, the author uses sensory language usually at the beginning of each stanza. Examples of his use of sensory language are:

- "Turning up the black soil"- appeal to sight


- "With both hands will I scatter"- appeal to touch and sight


- "My feet sink deep"- appeal to touch and sight


- "I sing as I go"- appeal to hearing


2. In the poem, the author uses figurative language usually right after the use of sensory language.


Examples are:
- "As a boat rides upon the water" - simile


- "Quivering emeralds out of a bottomless pouch" (line 12) - metaphor


- "The black earth embraces my ankles"- personification


- "I am bathed in a sweat of pearls"- metaphor


3. I believe both types of languge help us picture what the author is saying in our minds


On the other hand, figurative language is more interpretation. The earth, for example, is incapable of embracing, but we understand that this means the earth is surrounding the speaker's sinking feet.


In the poem "The Black Land," by Joseph Warren Beach, the speaker is a farmer tilling the land.

The speaker uses sensory and figurative language throughout the poem.

He alternates the two types of language in each stanza, usually beginning with the sensory one. However, that is not a rule.

The use of both languages helps us visualize his work: how he opens the soil, how the earth reacts to it, how he sweats from the hard work as the wind blows by

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Step-by-step explanation:

Basically what this analysis is about is that there are stories where the writer/author makes the reader imagine about what the scenery looks like, for example, the use of the phrase "mushy sand crushed between my toes" that makes the reader visualize it, and imagine the sensation of sand on their toes. That is visualization, there are many sensory related visions listed in the analysis, hearing, seeing, touching, tasting all can be experienced through the wonders of reading.