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| * Diction * | ||||||||||
| ~ Strophe 1 - The use of diction like the words wonderful, inexhaustible, and timeless, portray the dominance of man. In this section, man is being described as "untiring", as if we are a god. | ||||||||||
| ~ Antistrophe 1 - The use of diction in words like tamed, resign, and broken express how animals are domesticated by man. IT goes into detail on how the strongest animals give yield to man, and how everything fears us. | ||||||||||
| ~ Strophe 2 - The use of diction in words like rapid, every, and secure portray the intelligence of man in every aspect of life except for death. In this section of the ode, the words and thought of man were described as being "as rapid as air", and the intelligence to create anything that he can fashion to good use; it is ironic, because this section begins with a tone of awe, but then transitions into a tone of fear. When the thought, "in the late wind of death he cannot stand" is portrayed, this makes the reader have a sense of fear. Because earlier in the passage man is described as a sort of dominance in the world, it is frightening to see that man looks inferior at the end. | ||||||||||
| ~ Antistrophe 2 - The use of diction in words like intelligence, fate, and proudly, describe the pride that man places on them self; men never want to share the same thoughts as someone without their same beliefs or laws. A rightous man keeps to the laws of the city, and there will then be order and justice; but when man does not obey the laws of the city, there will then be disorder and chaos. | ||||||||||
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