The Lady Or The Tramp - A Warm Up Poem Poem by Miroslava Odalovic

Line by line, and to the finish, the poem is esoterically heightened by such devices as antithesis. 'The river or the island, The island or the Camelot, Four towers or the fragrant flowers, A water lily or an aspen tree, Be imprisoned or just set free, The noise of heaven or silence remote...' Placing these words side by side, they appear somewhat different, but, accordingly, they are capable of posing trouble of equal magnitude the same way the choice of one variable to another only tends to open a Pandora's box. However, it is even more intelligible this way: ' Be imprisoned for life or just set free to die now'. An eagle eye will see these are difficult choices. Since the narrator compresses critical observations at a fearful rate, if a choice has to be made at all, perhaps under duress, it might hardly be too brief. Succinctly, a choice in this dilemma ballad is a difficult product of an equally difficult imagination into which we are being wittingly catapulted by the poet.