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Sunday, February 12, 2023

Beehive Poetic Devices


POETIC DEVICES

Literary devices in poetry refer to specific techniques that poets use to convey their message, add meaning, and evoke emotions. Some of the most common literary devices used in poetry include:

Rhyme: The repetition of similar or identical sounds at the end of two or more words in a line of poetry.

Alliteration: Repetition of the same initial sound in successive words

Assonance: Repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words

Repetition: The repetition of a word or phrase for emphasis or to create a sense of unity in a poem.

Imagery: The use of descriptive language to create vivid mental images in the reader’s mind.

Personification: Giving human qualities to non-human objects

Simile: A comparison of two unlike things using the words “like” or “as.”

Metaphor: A comparison between two, unlike things to suggest a similarity without using the words “like” or “as.”

Onomatopoeia: Words that imitate sounds

Hyperbole: Extreme exaggeration

Irony: The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning

Symbolism: The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.

These are just a few examples of the many literary devices that can be found in poetry.

The Road Not Taken - Literary Devices

1. Rhyme Scheme: abaab

2. Symbolism: two roads that represent two or more choices in our life

3. Anaphora: ‘and’ repeated at the beginning of lines 2, 3 and 4

4. Alliteration: Wanted Wear ‘w’ sound is repeating

‘first for’ – ‘f’ sound is repeating

‘though, that’- ‘th’ sound is repeating

5. Repetition: ‘Ages’ is repeated. ‘Two roads diverged in a wood’- this sentence is repeated in stanzas 1 and 4.

 

Wind – Poetic Devices

 

Metaphor: It is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. In the poem, Wind is a metaphor as it symbolizes challenges that humans face in their lives.

Personification: It is the attribution of human characteristics to animals and non-living things. In the poem, the poet calls Wind by the pronoun “He” which is usually used for humans. He also calls wind as Wind God.

Repetition: it is the repetition of certain words or phrases for poetic effect. In the poem, “crumbling” has been repeated several times.

Alliteration: It is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. e.g. “crumbling houses, crumbling doors, crumbling rafters, crumbling wood, crumbling bodies, crumbling lives, crumbling hearts”, “the wind god winnows”, and “He won’t do what you tell him.”

Enjambment: It is the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. e.g. “Frail crumbling houses, crumbling doors, crumbling rafters, crumbling wood, crumbling bodies, crumbling lives, crumbling hearts”.

Symbolism: It is the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities. e.g. wind symbolises challenges and problems, weak fires symbolise people with weak will power and strong fires symbolise people with strong will power and firm determination.

 

Rain on the Rood – Poetic Devices

Alliteration: It is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. e.g. “lie listening”, “starry spheres”, “humid hover”, “press pillow”, “darling dreamers” “rain roof” etc.

Personification: It is the attribution of human characteristics to non-human things. In the poem, melancholy darkness weeps in rainy tears. Melancholy and tears are specific to humans but are attributed to the darkness. Again, in stanza 2, thousand recollections weave air-threads. The weaving is also a characteristic feature of humans but attributed to dreams.

Onomatopoeia: It is the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named. e.g. patter, tinkle.

Metaphor: It is a figure of speech that is used to make a comparison between two things that aren’t alike but do have something in common. e.g. shadows refer to clouds.

Transferred Epithet: When an adjective usually used to describe one thing is transferred to another. e.g. “melancholy darkness”, “dreamy fancies”, “darling dreamers”.


The Lake Isle of Innisfree – Poetic Devices

Metaphor: A metaphor shows direct comparison between two things which the use of as or like. e.g. “veils of the morning “, “deep heart’s core”. Here night is referred to as veils of morning. Similarly poet’s desires are referred to as deep heart’s core.

Alliteration: It is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. e.g. “a hive for the honey-bee”, “live alone in the bee-loud glade”, “a glimmer, and noon a purple glow”, “lake water lapping with low sounds”.

Anaphora: It is the repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses. e.g. “I will”, “go”.

Personification: It is the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human. e.g. “cricket sings”. Singing is the characteristic of humans and has been attributed to cricket (an insect).

Images: Images are representation of something which draw on the five senses. e.g. Visual Images (midnight’s all a glimmer, noon a purple glow), Auditory Images (the bee-loud glade, the cricket sings, I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore) etc.

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The Legend of the Northland – Poetic Devices

1. Rhyme Scheme: abcb

2. Alliteration: is the repetition of a consonant sound in two or more close words.

Stanza 1 – that, they, them through – ‘th’ sound is repeating

Stanza 2 – they, the – ‘th’ sound is repeating

look, like – ‘l’ sound is repeating

funny, furry – ‘f’ sound is repeating

Stanza 3 – they, them- ‘th’ sound is repeating

yet, you – ‘‘y sound is repeating’

learn, lesson – ‘l’ sound is repeating

tell, tale, to – ‘t’ sound is repeating

Stanza 5 – woman, was – ‘w’ sound is repeating

Them, the, hearth – ‘th’ sound is repeating

Stanza 6 – faint, fasting – ‘f’ sound is repeating

Stanza 8 – still, smaller – ‘s’ sound is repeating

Stanza 9 – took, tiny -‘t’ sound is repeating

Stanza 10 – seem, small – ‘s’ sound is repeating

Stanza 13 – build, birds – ‘b’ sound is repeating

by, boring, boring – ‘b’ sound is repeating

 

 

 

3. Repetition: any word or sentence is repeated to lay emphasis on it.

Stanza 1 – ‘away’ word is repeated

Stanza 9 – ‘rolled’ word is repeated

Stanza 13, 16 – ‘boring’ word is repeated

 4. Enjambment: running lines of poetry from one to the next without using any kind of punctuation to indicate a stop

Stanza 1 – line 3 and 4

Stanza 2 – Line 1 and 2; line 3 and 4

Stanza 3 – Line 3 and 4

Stanza 4 – Line 1 and 2; 3 and 4

Stanza 10 – Line 1, 2 and 3

Stanza 11 – Line 1 and 2

5. Simile: Comparison using ‘as’ or ‘like’

Stanza 2 – ‘the children look like bear’s cubs’. Children compared to bear’s cubs

Stanza 9 – ‘baked it thin as a wafer’. Cake is compared to a wafer.

Stanza 15 – ‘clothes were burned black as a coal’. The colour of the burned clothes is compared to that of coal.

No Men are Foreign - Poetic devices

Metaphor: It is a poetic device which is used to make a comparison between two things that aren’t alike but do have something in common. e.g. in the poem the poet compares the war with winter (stanza 2) and hell (stanza 5) because of its dread effects on humanity. Another example of metaphor in the poem is when the poet calls people living in foreign lands as brothers.

Alliteration: It is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. e.g. “a single body breathes”, “in which we all shall lie”, “war’s long winter”, “In every land is common life”, “whenever we are told”.

Polysyndeton: It is a literary technique in which conjunctions (e.g. and, but, or) are used repeatedly in quick succession. e.g. “aware of sun and air and water”.

Enjambment: It is the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. e.g. the last line of Stanza 4 continues to stanza 5.

The Duck and The Kangaroo – Poetic Devices

Alliteration: It is the use of the same sound at the beginning of words that are close together. e.g. “Good gracious! how you hop!”, “I would sit quite still, and say nothing”, “This requires some little reflection”, “But to balance”, “dear duck”.

Repetition: It is the repetition of words or phrases in the poem for poetic effect e.g. “Said the Duck to the Kangaroo“.

Enjambment: It is the continuation of a sentence or clause across a line break. e.g.

“My life is a bore in this nasty pond,

And I long to go out in the world beyond!

I wish I could hop like you!’

Said the Duck to the Kangaroo.”

This sentence continues to four lines.

On Killing A Tree – Poetic Devices

Metaphor: It is a literary device which is used to make a comparison between two things that aren’t alike but do have something in common. e.g. “Leprous hide” used to describe the bark of tree, “Bleeding bark” used to describe the cut stem of the plant.

Alliteration: It is the use of the same sound at the beginning of words that are close together. e.g. “takes much time to kill a tree”, “bleeding bark”, “white and wet”.

Personification: It is the attribution of human characteristics to animals, plants and other non-human things. e.g. the tree has been personified here because we do not use the word “kill” for cutting a tree, “bleeding bark” – the word bleeding is used for humans.

Repetition: It involves the repetition of a word or phrase(s) for poetic effect. e.g. “pulled out”.

Enjambment: It is the continuation of a sentence or clause across a line break. e.g. “It takes much time to kill a tree, Not a simple jab of the knife Will do it”.

The Snake Trying - Literary devices

Rhyme scheme - There is no rhyming scheme in ‘The Snake Trying.’ The poem is written in free verse.

Alliteration - The poem has a repetition of a consonant sound in 2 or more consecutive words in one sentence. For example, in ‘he is harmless even to children’ – ‘h’.

Transferred epithet - In the poem, the adjective is used with a noun which refers to the noun other than the one with which it is used. For example, in the phrase ‘Pursuing stick,’ pursuing here means the person who is holding the stick and not the stick itself.

Imagery - The author has used words or phrases in the poem that appeals to the reader’s senses to create a “mental image” for the reader. For example, this paragraph in the poem creates visual imagery.

A Slumber did My Spirits Seal – Poetic Devices

1. Rhyme scheme – abab cdcd

2. Alliteration – The repetition of a consonant sound at the start of two or more consecutive words is called alliteration. The instances of alliteration are as follows –

‘Spirit sealed’, ‘rolled round’

 3. Enjambment – when a sentence continues into two or more lines ending without any punctuation marks, it is called Enjambment. The instances of enjambment are as follows –

“She seemed a thing that could not feel

The touch of earthly years.”

“Rolled round in earth’s diurnal course

With rocks and stones and trees.”