With objective humor, Elder Browns Backslide highlights how pointless and meaningless the human experience can be if sedentary alienation and monotony drives social life to the extreme of becoming resigned or complacent. And also how beauty and bliss can come across from the most simple things.
Answer:
Assonance is characterized as the literary device in which there is a repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds though with different consonants.
In the poem titled 'Making a Fist', one example of assonance would be in the repeated occurrence of vowel sound 'i' in 'wide' and 'inside.' This example conveys the idea of 'life being vast consisting of both the joys and troubling times as well' which associates to the central message of poem 'an individual's strength in his/her self irreespective of the type of the situation' and make it more effective.
