Ode to a large tuna in the market poem

The Idea of motion through out the poem

Ode to a large tuna in the market is a poem by Pablo Neruda. This paragraph is about the motion of the tuna.The poem uses metaphor to describe the motion of the fish as a missile,bullet, arrow and a sea javelin. These objects are the main keys that links to the tuna. The poem uses those objects to describe how the fast the tuna is. "This torpedo from the ocean depths, a missile that swam" a torpedo is something under water that is fast. They are all strong imageric metaphors to describe the motion of the fish. Describing the fish as a missile just paints the motion of the fish in our heads. "Only you dark bullet barreled from the depths" depths is the sea and the dark bullet is the fish in this case. The poet uses the word barreled, meaning moving in a way that is too fast that it could be almost out of control. Again the poet puts the image of the fish fast.

launderette poem

Examples: "his small possessions swim" ( meaning there isn't a lot of cloths so they just swim around)
"They nose and nudge the porthole glass like flotsam" ( it's a simile. Floatsam means the floating wreckage of a ship .

This poem is negative , because it uses the words: dour ( which means like