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For me the great truths are laced with hysteria. How many Einsteins can we tolerate? I leap into the uncertainty principle. After so many smears, you want to wash it off with a laugh. Ha ha, you say. So what if it's a meltdown? Last lines to poems I will write immediately.
At the doughnut shop twenty-three silverbacks are lined up at the bar, sitting on the stools. It's morning coffee and trash day. The waitress has a heavy feeling face, considerate with carmine lipstick. She doesn't brown my fries. I have to stand at the counter and insist on my order. I take my cup of coffee to a small inoffensive table along the wall. At the counter the male chorus line is lined up tight. I look at their almost identical butts; their buddy hunched shoulders, the curve of their ancient spines. They are methodically browsing in their own territory. This data goes into that vast confused library, the female mind.
In this poem Ruth uses a number of metaphors like "silverbacks", "buddy hunched shoulders", and "a vast confused library". She also uses sensory imagry when she says "the waitress had a heavy feeling face", and personification when she says and "innofensive table". Stone uses a hyperbloe when she says the men have "ancient spines".
So What
Ruth Stone
Male Gorillas
In this short poem, Stone uses a metaphor when she says truths "are laced with hysteria" andpersonification when she says she "leaps into the uncertainty principle." Ruth uses symbolism when she says "wash it off with a laugh" and she writes in free verse during this poem.
Ruth Stone was born on June 8, 1915 in Roanoke, Virginia. Her relatives wrote poetry, painted, practiced law, and taught school. She started reading when she was 3. Her family is of English descent. Her grandpa was a senator, her grandma hosted many tea parties, and her dad was a drummer. An interviewer addressed reasons for Stone's "relative obscurity—her lack of connection to academia, her lateness in starting her poetic career, her refusal to conform to expectations—[but] praises Stone for her virtuoso range of subject, tone and technique.”
