The rhyming couplet poem gSkaterh by Charles. G.D. Roberts expresses the theme of dream, solitude, and wilderness, where the writerfs adventure and adrenaline towards skating brought him to another state of consciousness where nature took him over and the fact that hefs so taken away by naturefs beauty and the surroundings that he was isolated from the real world. Roberts emphasizes the relationships of human beings to nature through the effective use of simile, metaphor, and alliteration.

Simile is one technique used in the poem to emphasize the theme of the nature force upon humans. Sometimes similes force us to consider how the two things being compared are dissimilar yet also similar somehow. In comparing two seemingly unlike things, like nature and human, it helps to emphasize the contrast and the defencelessness of humans against naturefs power (In this case, the beauty...