In his
poem Letter From a Contract Writer, Antonio Jacinto assumes the persona of a lovesick laborer
who is working far away from homeand the woman he adores.
is defined as word
choice. The connotations of the words in all but the last stanza of the poem are romantic or
sexual. The speaker uses words like desire, yearning, intimate, caresses, passion, and
hot. All of these suggest the speakers lust for his lover.
The diction of
the poem establishes an admiring, passionate tone as the speaker compares his lovers features to
various things...
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