Thursday, May 10, 2012

"Little-Bitty Man" is an interesting poem with a great poetic device used with in it.  Storni goes about and explains that she is willing to entertain this man with no personal strength to earn a women who respects him for who he is and needs a caged canary to try and earn this same love.  Storni uses a lot of paradoxes in the story.  The first is in the title.  The common idea behind the word man is a large and powerful being, but it is contradicted with the adjective Little- Bitty before it confusing readers and then the images of the canary being caged instead of free.  The author mentions that he does not understand the bird and he does understand what the bird is feeling because he is trying to turn the bird into a paradox like himself so she can understand him.

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