The Summer Day Literary Elements

First-person narrative poem

Free verse poem

The poem is a metaphor for life and to humanity because the grasshopper represents the preciousness of life.

Alliteration in the line "into the grass, how to kneel in the grass" signifies the speaker's difficulty in praying.

The main paradox is that life is vanity because, despite how marvelous the world is, death is unavoidable and can come soon.

Short fiction

The poem is set in 1992 and takes place in an unnamed place with grass and grasshoppers.

The tone is delightful because the poet talks about how the grasshopper enjoys life in its natural world and lives in its "untamed and valued life." The mood is curious because the poet keeps questioning creation's mysteries.

The protagonist is the speaker, and the antagonist is the grasshopper.

There is a conflict between the purpose of life and death. The poet is torn between casting away feelings of confusion and pursuing happiness because death is unavoidable.

The climax comes when the grasshopper washes her face and floats away marvelously to signify the beauty of nature. The climax conveys that life is precious, so a person should live to the fullest, like the grasshopper in a natural world.

Death foreshadows the vanity of life. No matter how beautiful life is, everything dies at last.

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The poem alludes to the creation of the earth. For instance, the poet asks, "Who made the world, the swan and the grasshopper?" Similarly, the speaker talks about prayers alluding to the fact that there is a supreme being behind earth's creation.

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The grasshopper is personified as human when the speaker says, "Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.

Hyperbole is in line “Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.” The snapping of the wings is a hyperbole. In reality, if the grasshopper snaps her wings, they will break and it will not be able to fly.

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