“Concrete Mixers” by Patricia Hubbell compares concrete mixers to elephants to show humans have created relationships with their machines in much the same way as with animals under their care. The poet shows how the drivers of the concrete mixers wash and tend to their mixers just as the mahout take care of their elephants. This comparison is set up at the beginning of the poem with this simile: “Like elephant tenders they hose them down.” To continue this relationship, the poet describes the concrete drivers as “mahouts”, the name for people who take care of elephants in other countries. The poem also describes how the concrete mixers “stand in muck”, meaning that these machines are in muddy environments similar to the environments of elephants who stand in mud or muck.In the end the poet describes how the concrete mixers are like elephants working to do humans’ work by lifting, moving and helping to create new structures in a city. The poet uses several similes to describe concrete mixers as if they were alive: “Concrete mixers/Move like elephants/Bellow like elephants/Spray like elephants” She further strengthens the effect by writing that they “…are urban elephants/Their trunks are raising a city.” This metaphor means that just as elephants work for humans in
Poetry Collection 3 other countries, the machines in the poem are doing the labor of building a city. The poet uses the word “raising” to show that the city is being built up, becoming taller and taller with skyscrapers. Through the effective use of figurative language the poet shows how humans have begun to treat their machines as if they were living, breathing animal
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The analogy that uses a relationship showing size or degree is Degrees of a Characteristic Analogy.
The analogy that shows relationship between an object and what it is made of is Object and Related Object Analogy.
The analogy that shows "a type of relationship" is Object and part of the whole Analogy
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Degrees of a Characteristic Analogy refers to using a relationship between two things showing size or degree example: "warm and hot", "cold and freezing"
Object and Related Object Analogy shows the relationship between an object and what it is made of. Examples include "book and paper".
Object and part of the whole Analogy is the type of analogy that shows a type of relationship that exist between two objects. Examples include "brick and wall", "page and book"
