Similies
Metaphors are used t emphasize the problems
Hyperbole is used to make them problems seem bigger and the Streep planners more useless
Personification
Imagery / sensory imagery
Illusionism, the author is illuding the subject of global warming
Enjambment – the enjambment is used to emphasize the problem because the breaking of the lines almost seems like it goes on for ever like the problems of the city that are being complained about.
themes:
Global warming is a man subject in the poem because it says that the Streets are breaking down because of natural disasters caused by Global warming
Global issues (global warming, poor use of funds ect..)
An Angry tone is used to show how mad the person complaining is about the problems of the city.
Cruising these residential Sunday
streets in dry August sunlight:
what offends us is
the sanities:
the houses in pedantic rows, the planted
sanitary trees, assert
levelness of surface like a rebuke
to the dent in our car door.
No shouting here, or
shatter of glass; nothing more abrupt
than the rational whine of a power mower
cutting a straight swath in the discouraged grass.
But though the driveways neatly
sidestep hysteria
by being even, the roofs all display
the same slant of avoidance to the hot sky,
certain things:
the smell of spilled oil a faint
sickness lingering in the garages,
a splash of paint on brick surprising as a bruise,
a plastic hose poised in a vicious
coil; even the too-fixed stare of the wide windows
give momentary access to
the landscape behind or under
the future cracks in the plaster
when the houses, capsized, will slide
obliquely into the clay seas, gradual as glaciers
that right now nobody notices.
That is where the City Planners
with the insane faces of political conspirators
are scattered over unsurveyed
territories, concealed from each other,
each in his own private blizzard;
guessing directions, they sketch
transitory lines rigid as wooden borders
on a wall in the white vanishing air
tracing the panic of suburb
order in a bland madness of snows