The attitude of the speaker demonstrates confusion of this world and learning how to live your life with trying to please everyone in your life. This is demonstrated through the use of imagery, metaphors, and alliteration. When people try to please everyone they can be very disappointed with the outcome if it is not what the audience in their life wanted from them. This could cause them to stop maintaining their life like they should and just focusing on what other people want. In this poem, I believe that the juggler is someone who thinks that if he doesn’t succeed that everyone will be disappointed with him and doesn’t understand how hard he has been practicing to get to where he is now. The juggler could be any of us, in fact, it is us. We, humans, care too much about what people think about our life. Our life revolves around them, just as the juggler's life revolves around the audience. None of us think of the pressure that is created when this is happening, but yet we pressure everyone just as they are pressuring us.…show more content… Why would he try so hard to keep them in the air, or spend hours upon hours trying to keep these little red round objects in the air? These balls represent his success and how he pleases the people around him. How he impresses them if you will. If he drops even a single ball then the crowd or the people around him will be disappointed. In a way the red balls is the hearts of the ones who want him to succeed, and he knows that if he just happens to drop them then their hearts will no longer be hearts and he will no longer see him as the one who accomplishes tasks to please people. They will see him as a failure and that is
