In WIlliam Matthews's "The Waste Carpet" I see parallelism being used with "O California." That particular little phrase is balancing the beginning of the 3 stanzas where California is the main state or more of the location from where this is taking place. I see California as the ideal state where everybody wants to live and it's all about the good weather and specially so much movement going on with celebrities. -Montzerrath Rodriguez
In William Matthew's poem " The Waste Carpet' there is a lot imagery being used but what caught my attention the most was when he stated " There are Fords and Dodges, a Mercury on blocks, four darts and a piece arrow, a choir of silenced Chevrolets. My first though while reading this was seeing different kinds of cars on street and one of them on blocks and others just parked in silence.
In "The Waste Carpet" by William Matthew, I noticed that there are many different simile that he uses. "Up north near Lebanon and Troy and Rosewood, the corn I skulked in as a boy lays back its ears like a shammed dog." I feel like he uses a comparison between the corn and the dog to give us an idea of how the corn looks like after many years of it being hidden. I think his comparison gives us the image of the corn looking like a shammed dog who is sad, depressed, guilty, etc. He uses this shammed dog and the corn to give us an idea how they are similar in appearance and maybe emotions if the corn was alive. - Houa Lee
After reading "The Waste Carpet," by William Matthew, I'd have to say that my favorite line is the implied metaphor, "Now we are about to lose our voices we remember that tomorrow is our echo." I believe this to mean that we forget that our actions have a legacy; that with everything that we say and do, they all have consequences, but that we never remember this true and vital fact until it's too late. -Clarissa Cano
In the Poem "The Waste Carpet" by William Matthews, as I read I noticed a simile. "It took the shape of the landscape it rippled across like the last blanket." The land and blanket does not have anything in common but he describes the land rippling is describing the land covers the earth just how a blanket covers something or someone. Also the uneven surface or a blanket can also describe the land being uneven and spread throughout the earth. Victoria Din
While reading "The Waste Carpet" by William Matthews, I noticed some visual imagery in the phrase, "I was hoping to describe the colors of this industrial autumn- rust, a faded purple like the dusty skin of a Concord grape,..." The paragraph continues on with more visual imagery giving us an image of the warm colors of autumn. ~Tina Tafoya
In the poem "The Waste Carpet" by William Matthews, the author uses Meiosis. "Or we hoped we'd get off easy, losing only California" in this line Matthews makes it seem like losing the state of California would be no big deal. Martha Martinez
In “The Waste Carpet” by William Matthews “Lake Erie is returning our gifts” is an example of allusion, Lake Erie is known for being very polluted. It could also be seen as an example of personification because lakes cannot literally give gifts. - Crystal NesSmith
In "The Waste Carpet" by William Matthews "asbestos coiled like vermicelli" is an example of a simile. Vermicelli is a type of pasta that is made into long, very thin strings. Asbestos on the other hand is a mineral that can be woven into heat resistant fabric. The image of the vermicelli was used to describe the way in which the asbestos was arranged. -Julian Ibarra
In "The Waste Carpet" by William Matthews "Meanwhile, because the muck won't stop for lamentation, Kansas succumbs." is an example of personification as it tells that both the muck and Kansas have the abilities of a human being to not stop for lamentation or how Kansas succumbs to the muck. -Gustavo Hernandez
In the poem "The Waste Carpet" by William Matthews, the author uses a simile. "Outside Ravenswood, West Virginia, abandoned cars shine in the sun like beetlebacks" in this line the author is comparing the sheen of a beetles back to the glistening of an old American muscle car on a hot West Virginian afternoon. -Sergio Mendez
“blue, navel blue, royal blue, stark blue, true blue, the blacker blue the diver sees…”
The quote from “The Waste Carpet” displays consonance because of the constant sound/word “blue.” It emphasizes the color blue over the others that are mentioned. Matthews provides the reader with a vivid imagery of a diver going deeper and deeper into the water, and the different blues that one may see as they are descending the ocean.
The literary device that I found in William Mathews poem "The Waste Carpet" was a simile when he said "Outside Revenswood, West Virginia, abandoned cars shine in the sun like beetlebacks." Mathews is comparing old cars siting in the sun that are reflecting light off of them like a bug would. He is providing a imagery as well by telling us what the cars condition was (abandon) where the cars were (Ravenswood) and how they shined.
In "the waste carpet" second stanza. he says that "it" slithers through the house. What is "it". ambiguity. Also the idea of whatever "it" is Slithering. -Kamen Sarratt
In William Matthews' "The Waste Carpet" there were many visual imagery but the most that popped out to me the most was "A grotesque parody of the primeval muck starts oozing out." -Jessica Cruz
"Soap in unsoftened water, sewage, asbestos coiled like vermicelli, Masonite shavings, a liquefied lifetime subscription to The New York Times delivered all at once." is an example of visual imagery. This sentence gives me the image of all the said things broken down together into some sort of viscous sludge. - Jose Espinoza
I found that the persona is someone who is or feels like they are witnessing the apocalypse. She/he is describing how they think the world will end. They are saying, everything seems normal but then the Earth starts "revolting" against the humans by using all of the trash, oil, and other waste humans have left, to act as a vacuum. The land is slowly being buried by mud and a polluted sludge-like substance.
Mathews uses a metaphor when he says "The amiable cars wait stilly in their pasture." He compares all of the cars to a herd of some type of animal out in the wild.
“Empty body stockings, limp, forlorn, like collapsed lungs.” - William Matthews
This verse has both visual imagery and a simile and maybe somewhat hyperbole. The idea of lifeless empty body stockings is described so well that it’s wretched and sorrowful look is well pictured in the reader’s imagination. The author wanted to entail such description of the stockings that a simile was used to compare the limp stockings to collapsed lungs. I also find this verse to be exaggerated giving some stockings the attribute of a human body and it’s deterioration when the life has ceased to exist, just like those stockings ceased to be worn and left there lifeless.
In William Mathews poem "The Waste Carpet" alliteration is being used the the stanza where the phrase 'it took' is repeated 3 times in the same line. Mathews was trying to put emphasize on the fact that whatever 'it' is it's posses great power. -Elias Teutimez
In the poem, "The Waste Carpet" by William Matthews he uses and explain how and what he sees during the whole story. I found that he uses imagery a good simple example of imagery, "empty body stockings, limps forlorn, like collapsed lungs". I found it to be unique because not many writers can be able to explain a situation in this form of writing. -Elmer Zelaya
"Up north near Lebanon and Troy and Rosewood, the corn I skulked in as a boy lays back its ears like a shamed dog." Here the author is using pathos. The author is giving us this sense that an apocalypse is approaching and it is consuming everything in it's path. It shows that when the end of the world does come, nothing tangible will be left but the mere memories one has. Eden Schmoll
The phrase "While the rivers thickened and fish rose like vomit" is an example of grotesque visual imagery. Also it personifies the river as vomiting much a person does when they are containing more than their stomachs can hold.
In William Matthews work "The Waste Carpet," the line, "Empty body stockings, limp, forlorn, like collapsed lungs" is an example of a simile. He compares these two to help express the end of the world that is to come. Usually "body stockings" are worn by women to help them look slim and put together. However in Mathhews poem he is expressing they appear old and destroyed.
In "The Waste Carpet," the author says "Three Edsels forage in the southeast corner like bishops of a ruined church." This is an example of a simile; he compares cars to bishops. This line is also an example of personification. Williams says "Three Edsels forage..." To "forage" is to search for food or supplies. Cars cannot literally search for anything. ~ Stephanie Larson
In "The Waste Carpet" by William Matthews i found a line of personification. " Lake Erie is returning our gifts" is personification because a lake can not return gifts. The author gave a non human thing a human characteristic. -Rebecca Caraker
"A blithering slur of face creams, an army of photocopies travelling on its stomach of acronyms, tooth paste tubes wrung rigid and dry." Is an example of imagery of sounds. "tooth paste tubes wrung rigid" a comparison is being made with the sound of tooth paste to rigid noises.Onomatopoeia is used in this text. Norma Pedraza
In the poem "The Waste Carpet" by William Mathews the line "Lake Erie is returning our gifts." Mathews is using allusion, because he is making reference to a place. Because we know that "Lake Erie" is one of the five Great Lakes in North America. -Ruby Tenorio
In the poem The Waste Carpet I found a line that used the literary device simile. "Outside Ravenswood, West Virginia, abandoned cars shine in the sun like beetlebacks" In this verse the poet is describing the cars of the state of Virginia to be shining in the sun. The poet uses many different similes to help express what he is trying to get the reader to imagine visually.
In the last seven lines of the poem, repetition of the word too is used to make that last sentence stand out to the reader. It also helps get the speaker's point across to the audience, that this end is humans doing. The human race did not care about the problem until it was too late and all they could do was stand by and let it happen. In the last lines of the poem there is also rhyme, "goes by" and "goodbye".
There is an example of a simile in the poem as well within the lines "the corn I skulked in as a boy lays back its ears like a shamed dog". He is comparing leaves on corn to an animals ears (in this case a dog) when they know they are in trouble. -Madison Alaine Tingey
In the poem "The Waste Carpet" by William Matthews I found the line "While the rivers thickened and fish rose like vomit" this is an example of visual image. The line made me picture a smelly muddy lake with decaying fish belly up. Not only did this line make me picture dead fish, but I could actually imagine the smell. -Dalia Pardo
In "The Wasted Carpet" by Williams Matthews, the simile " they are all covered... like bubbles in lava" is used to create visual imagery in order to evoke the fear the persona of "he" is experiencing.
William Matthews poem "The Waste Carpet" is full of visual imagery and a the use of the grotesque in the first section of his poem almost to the point it kind of turns your stomach when reading it. I also feel like it also uses defamiliarization because it gives everyday items in a unfamiliar and gross way. But, I am going to look at the last sentence in the first section which says " Lake Erie is returning our gift." It is irony that the lake is returning us gift that truly not gift but vale trash that in no shape or from is a gift. Also this sentence use personification because the Lake can not return an item.
"Soap in unsoftened water, sewage, asbestos coiled like vermicelli, Masonite shavings, a liquefied lifetime subscription to The New York Times delivered all at once." I think this is a good example of visual imagery the writer uses in order to catch the readers attention. -Julian Zamora
In WIlliam Matthews's "The Waste Carpet" I see parallelism being used with "O California." That particular little phrase is balancing the beginning of the 3 stanzas where California is the main state or more of the location from where this is taking place. I see California as the ideal state where everybody wants to live and it's all about the good weather and specially so much movement going on with celebrities.
ReplyDelete-Montzerrath Rodriguez
In William Matthew's poem " The Waste Carpet' there is a lot imagery being used but what caught my attention the most was when he stated " There are Fords and Dodges, a Mercury on blocks, four darts and a piece arrow, a choir of silenced Chevrolets. My first though while reading this was seeing different kinds of cars on street and one of them on blocks and others just parked in silence.
ReplyDeleteIn "The Waste Carpet" by William Matthew, I noticed that there are many different simile that he uses. "Up north near Lebanon and Troy and Rosewood, the corn I skulked in as a boy lays back its ears like a shammed dog." I feel like he uses a comparison between the corn and the dog to give us an idea of how the corn looks like after many years of it being hidden. I think his comparison gives us the image of the corn looking like a shammed dog who is sad, depressed, guilty, etc. He uses this shammed dog and the corn to give us an idea how they are similar in appearance and maybe emotions if the corn was alive.
ReplyDelete- Houa Lee
After reading "The Waste Carpet," by William Matthew, I'd have to say that my favorite line is the implied metaphor, "Now we are about to lose our voices we remember that tomorrow is our echo." I believe this to mean that we forget that our actions have a legacy; that with everything that we say and do, they all have consequences, but that we never remember this true and vital fact until it's too late.
ReplyDelete-Clarissa Cano
In the Poem "The Waste Carpet" by William Matthews, as I read I noticed a simile. "It took the shape of the landscape it rippled across like the last blanket." The land and blanket does not have anything in common but he describes the land rippling is describing the land covers the earth just how a blanket covers something or someone. Also the uneven surface or a blanket can also describe the land being uneven and spread throughout the earth.
ReplyDeleteVictoria Din
While reading "The Waste Carpet" by William Matthews, I noticed some visual imagery in the phrase, "I was hoping to describe the colors of this industrial autumn- rust, a faded purple like the dusty skin of a Concord grape,..." The paragraph continues on with more visual imagery giving us an image of the warm colors of autumn.
ReplyDelete~Tina Tafoya
In the poem "The Waste Carpet" by William Matthews, the author uses Meiosis. "Or we hoped we'd get off easy, losing only California" in this line Matthews makes it seem like losing the state of California would be no big deal.
ReplyDeleteMartha Martinez
In “The Waste Carpet” by William Matthews “Lake Erie is returning our gifts” is an example of allusion, Lake Erie is known for being very polluted. It could also be seen as an example of personification because lakes cannot literally give gifts.
ReplyDelete- Crystal NesSmith
In "The Waste Carpet" in the stanza towards the end of the page states, " At first she thought she had won something." This is an example of irony.
ReplyDeleteProfessor Woodman, I really appreciate the way you make literature an interesting course to take. -Mallory J.Moore
In "The Waste Carpet" by William Matthews "asbestos coiled like vermicelli" is an example of a simile. Vermicelli is a type of pasta that is made into long, very thin strings. Asbestos on the other hand is a mineral that can be woven into heat resistant fabric. The image of the vermicelli was used to describe the way in which the asbestos was arranged.
ReplyDelete-Julian Ibarra
In "The Waste Carpet" by William Matthews "Meanwhile, because the muck won't stop for lamentation, Kansas succumbs." is an example of personification as it tells that both the muck and Kansas have the abilities of a human being to not stop for lamentation or how Kansas succumbs to the muck.
ReplyDelete-Gustavo Hernandez
In the poem "The Waste Carpet" by William Matthews, the author uses a simile. "Outside Ravenswood, West Virginia, abandoned cars shine in the sun like beetlebacks" in this line the author is comparing the sheen of a beetles back to the glistening of an old American muscle car on a hot West Virginian afternoon.
ReplyDelete-Sergio Mendez
“blue, navel blue, royal blue, stark blue, true
ReplyDeleteblue, the blacker blue the diver sees…”
The quote from “The Waste Carpet” displays consonance because of the constant sound/word “blue.” It emphasizes the color blue over the others that are mentioned. Matthews provides the reader with a vivid imagery of a diver going deeper and deeper into the water, and the different blues that one may see as they are descending the ocean.
- Vanessa Caudelaro
Sorry, I forgot to mention the constant repetition of the L sounds as well.
ReplyDelete- Vanessa Caudelaro
The literary device that I found in William Mathews poem "The Waste Carpet" was a simile when he said "Outside Revenswood, West Virginia, abandoned cars shine in the sun like beetlebacks." Mathews is comparing old cars siting in the sun that are reflecting light off of them like a bug would. He is providing a imagery as well by telling us what the cars condition was (abandon) where the cars were (Ravenswood) and how they shined.
ReplyDelete~~ Audrena Harlan
In "the waste carpet" second stanza. he says that "it" slithers through the house. What is "it". ambiguity. Also the idea of whatever "it" is Slithering.
ReplyDelete-Kamen Sarratt
In William Matthews' "The Waste Carpet" there were many visual imagery but the most that popped out to me the most was "A grotesque parody of the primeval muck starts oozing out."
ReplyDelete-Jessica Cruz
"Soap in unsoftened water, sewage, asbestos
ReplyDeletecoiled like vermicelli, Masonite shavings,
a liquefied lifetime subscription
to The New York Times delivered all at once." is an example of visual imagery. This sentence gives me the image of all the said things broken down together into some sort of viscous sludge.
- Jose Espinoza
I found that the persona is someone who is or feels like they are witnessing the apocalypse. She/he is describing how they think the world will end. They are saying, everything seems normal but then the Earth starts "revolting" against the humans by using all of the trash, oil, and other waste humans have left, to act as a vacuum. The land is slowly being buried by mud and a polluted sludge-like substance.
ReplyDelete-Katelyn Willey
Mathews uses a metaphor when he says "The amiable cars wait stilly in their pasture." He compares all of the cars to a herd of some type of animal out in the wild.
ReplyDelete-Steven Carlson
“Empty body stockings, limp, forlorn, like collapsed
ReplyDeletelungs.” - William Matthews
This verse has both visual imagery and a simile and maybe somewhat hyperbole. The idea of lifeless empty body stockings is described so well that it’s wretched and sorrowful look is well pictured in the reader’s imagination. The author wanted to entail such description of the stockings that a simile was used to compare the limp stockings to collapsed lungs. I also find this verse to be exaggerated giving some stockings the attribute of a human body and it’s deterioration when the life has ceased to exist, just like those stockings ceased to be worn and left there lifeless.
In William Mathews poem "The Waste Carpet" alliteration is being used the the stanza where the phrase 'it took' is repeated 3 times in the same line. Mathews was trying to put emphasize on the fact that whatever 'it' is it's posses great power.
ReplyDelete-Elias Teutimez
In the poem, "The Waste Carpet" by William Matthews he uses and explain how and what he sees during the whole story. I found that he uses imagery a good simple example of imagery, "empty body stockings, limps forlorn, like collapsed lungs". I found it to be unique because not many writers can be able to explain a situation in this form of writing.
ReplyDelete-Elmer Zelaya
"Up north near Lebanon and Troy and Rosewood,
ReplyDeletethe corn I skulked in as a boy
lays back its ears like a shamed dog."
Here the author is using pathos. The author is giving us this sense that an apocalypse is approaching and it is consuming everything in it's path. It shows that when the end of the world does come, nothing tangible will be left but the mere memories one has.
Eden Schmoll
ReplyDelete"O California, when you were moored to us like a vast splinter of melon." -William Matthews
This line is an example of Apostrophe. William. The author is addressing California, which obviously cannot respond.
-andreina solorio
The phrase "While the rivers thickened and fish rose like vomit" is an example of grotesque visual imagery. Also it personifies the river as vomiting much a person does when they are containing more than their stomachs can hold.
ReplyDelete-Chynna Hook
"Soap in unsoftened water"
ReplyDeleteThis is in example of a hyperbole, the author is exaggerating how soft the water appears to be.
-Patricia Vargas
In William Matthews work "The Waste Carpet," the line, "Empty body stockings, limp, forlorn, like collapsed lungs" is an example of a simile. He compares these two to help express the end of the world that is to come. Usually "body stockings" are worn by women to help them look slim and put together. However in Mathhews poem he is expressing they appear old and destroyed.
ReplyDelete-Brianna Bravo
Delete"the hills above the river, the lawn that drained toward Ricwood Ave." The author uses visual imagery to describe the scenery.
ReplyDelete-Rosalina Machuca
In "The Waste Carpet," the author says "Three Edsels forage in the southeast corner like bishops of a ruined church." This is an example of a simile; he compares cars to bishops. This line is also an example of personification. Williams says "Three Edsels forage..." To "forage" is to search for food or supplies. Cars cannot literally search for anything.
ReplyDelete~ Stephanie Larson
In "The Waste Carpet" by William Matthews i found a line of personification. " Lake Erie is returning our gifts" is personification because a lake can not return gifts. The author gave a non human thing a human characteristic.
ReplyDelete-Rebecca Caraker
"A blithering slur of face creams, an army of photocopies travelling on its stomach of acronyms, tooth paste tubes wrung rigid and dry." Is an example of imagery of sounds. "tooth paste tubes wrung rigid" a comparison is being made with the sound of tooth paste to rigid noises.Onomatopoeia is used in this text.
ReplyDeleteNorma Pedraza
In the poem "The Waste Carpet" by William Mathews the line "Lake Erie is returning our gifts." Mathews is using allusion, because he is making reference to a place. Because we know that "Lake Erie" is one of the five Great Lakes in North America.
ReplyDelete-Ruby Tenorio
In the poem The Waste Carpet I found a line that used the literary device simile. "Outside Ravenswood, West Virginia, abandoned cars shine in the sun like beetlebacks" In this verse the poet is describing the cars of the state of Virginia to be shining in the sun. The poet uses many different similes to help express what he is trying to get the reader to imagine visually.
ReplyDeleteIn the last seven lines of the poem, repetition of the word too is used to make that last sentence stand out to the reader. It also helps get the speaker's point across to the audience, that this end is humans doing. The human race did not care about the problem until it was too late and all they could do was stand by and let it happen. In the last lines of the poem there is also rhyme, "goes by" and "goodbye".
ReplyDeleteThere is an example of a simile in the poem as well within the lines "the corn I skulked in as a boy lays back its ears like a shamed dog". He is comparing leaves on corn to an animals ears (in this case a dog) when they know they are in trouble.
-Madison Alaine Tingey
In the poem "The Waste Carpet" by William Matthews I found the line "While the rivers thickened and fish rose like vomit" this is an example of visual image. The line made me picture a smelly muddy lake with decaying fish belly up. Not only did this line make me picture dead fish, but I could actually imagine the smell.
ReplyDelete-Dalia Pardo
In "The Wasted Carpet" by Williams Matthews, the simile " they are all covered... like bubbles in lava" is used to create visual imagery in order to evoke the fear the persona of "he" is experiencing.
ReplyDeleteAriene Edith Gregorio
William Matthews poem "The Waste Carpet" is full of visual imagery and a the use of the grotesque in the first section of his poem almost to the point it kind of turns your stomach when reading it. I also feel like it also uses defamiliarization because it gives everyday items in a unfamiliar and gross way. But, I am going to look at the last sentence in the first section which says " Lake Erie is returning our gift." It is irony that the lake is returning us gift that truly not gift but vale trash that in no shape or from is a gift. Also this sentence use personification because the Lake can not return an item.
ReplyDeleteAlfred Flores
"Soap in unsoftened water, sewage, asbestos
ReplyDeletecoiled like vermicelli, Masonite shavings,
a liquefied lifetime subscription
to The New York Times delivered all at once."
I think this is a good example of visual imagery the writer uses in order to catch the readers attention.
-Julian Zamora