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Wagoner's Tumbleweed: An Analysis
The central theme of the poem Tumbleweed by David Wagoner is a
tumbleweed that bounces from one place to the next. It is buffeted by the
wind, and it ends up stuck on a fence from which it is rescued by the poet
to continue its way.
In the first stanza, the poet tells us that the tumbleweed, which
is a metaphor for himself has been through. Tilting lopsided, bouncing end
over end. This tells us how ....
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.... and hopeless feeling of
the poet. He feels great pain at his situation, feels that there is no way
out. He is hanging there on the fence, exposed for everyone to see.
In the second stanza, the poet continues to use metaphors for his
life. Half the sharp seeds have fallen from this tumbler, knocked out for
good by head- stands and pratfalls between here and wherever it grew up.
The seeds of the tumbleweed have been knocked out from being tossed about
all the time and this has been happ ....
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