However, famous people seem to embrace "the mainstream dream machine", after all this is American culture and if we would be without our "Coliseum / full of blinding lights and tigers", a another powerful one that helps describe how we have become a modern Rome. The second poem analyzed is In Praise of Their Divorce, and the main idea is that divorce could be a good thing, even though it is frowned upon in today's society. Divorce is becoming more prevalent throughout American culture, and Hoagland uses metaphors and similes to illustrate this image. For example, in the second stanza Hoagland writes, “that man and that woman sit in different directions, / like pilgrims in a proverb,” here the use of alliteration is in “different directions” and “pilgrims in a proverb” , while line 4 is also a simile. Hoagland also alludes to marriage as an earthquake using hyperbole when he writes in line 10 "moving the plates of the earth"”
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