Nursery Rhymes For The Tender-Hearted By Christopher Morley Analysis
241 Words1 Page
Christopher Morley, author of “Nursery Rhymes for the Tender-hearted”, says that cockroaches are gracious and delightful and he helps to further his point through figurative, positive connotative, and polysyllabic diction. Morley describes cockroaches and uses figurative diction to help his opinion flow elegantly through the poem, “Cook has gone, and all is dark- Then the kitchen is your park; In the garbage heap that she leaves Do you browse among the tea leaves?” (Morley). Figurative diction uses similes and metaphors, Morley makes the connection of the cockroach’s park is the kitchen at dark. The second type of diction Morley uses is positive connotative diction, “We are brothers, thou and I, In the midnight, like yourself, I explore the