Nobody loses all the time - Poem Analysis

Poem about how in the process of human struggle we can find a purpose in the face of failure and loss. It is inevitable. Death is a reoccurring idea→ Speakers attitude towards death is optimistic and accepting. With continues effort, success will certainly come. Foreshadows the ending as there is no body of Uncle Sol. He died. Nobody loses all the time nobody loses all the time Poem is a slice-of-life narrative about an uncle who fails. Optimistic tone. Anecdote→ telling a story. i had an uncle named His failure was widely acknowledged and accepted. Sol who was a born failure and Shows that everyone has the potential to be special, nearly everybody said he should have gone but you must search for your calling. Type of entertainment into vaudeville perhaps because my Uncle Sol could sing McCann He Was A Diver on Xmas Eve like Hell Itself which His singing was an Uncertainty may or may not account for the fact that my Uncle unforgiveable expression of his pain and suffering. Sol indulged in that possibly most inexcusable pretentious Describes how farming is a pretentious (flashy) luxury. IRONIC as of all to use a highfalootin phrase it is not luxuries that is or to wit farming and be His attempt at farming could be predicted. it needlessly added Domino Effect → Sol seems adaptable. If one thing fails, he starts another. my Uncle Sol’s farm failed because the chickens ate the vegetables so my Uncle Sol had a chicken farm till the skunks ate the chickens when Words not associated with a funeral. my Uncle Sol had a skunk farm but Alliteration provides a sharp sound linking to the death of the skunks. the skunks caught cold and died and so Uncle Sol has accepted his fate. my Uncle Sol imitated the skunks in a subtle manner Morbid/ Macabre tone or by drowning himself in the watertank but somebody who’d given my Uncle Sol a Victor Ironic as death is not regarded as good/holyVictrola and records while he lived presented to him upon the auspicious occasion of his decease a however in this case it is a triumph for Uncle Sol. Neologism scrumptious not to mention splendiferous funeral with tall boys in black gloves and flowers and everything and i remember we all cried like the Missouri SIMILE → They cried so hard that their tears flowed like a river in the USA. HYPERBOLE →largest river in the country. when my Uncle Sol’s coffin lurched because somebody pressed a button (and down went my Uncle Sol Shortening of lines mimic the downward motion of Uncle Sol. The brackets convey the coffin. and started a worm farm) Speaker believes that his uncle has finally achieved success in his afterlife. His body has become a worm farm. IRONIC. STRUCTURE • • • • • There is harmony between the content and form due to enjambment and lack of capital letters. Makes the read more casual. Enjambment rushes the poem making reader think about how fast Uncle Sol lived his life. The poem is disorganised. → Has free verse (modern), irregular typography, and irregular rhyme scheme. → Highlights how life is not always organised, it is unpredictable. Typography resembles a dug-out piece of land which is significant as Uncle Sol was a farmer. Structure is unpredictable (ironic) → Uncle Sols future was predictable. Shortening of lines = regression in Uncle Sols life. TONE • • • Sardonic (mocking/cynical) Humorous Optimistic