CLASS IX: POETIC DEVICES

  POETIC DEVICES

WIND

Poetic Device

1. Anaphora: a word get repeated at the start of two or more consecutive lines.

    Lines 2, 3, 4 begin with ‘don’t’.

    Lines 6, 7, 8 begin with ‘you’.

2. Personification: human characteristics given to inanimate objects

  wind has been personified. When the poet says ‘you are’, he is referring to wind as ‘you’         that means he is treating wind as a person.

3. Repetition: use of same words or phrases for sake of emphasis.

    ‘crumbling’ is repeated many times to lay emphasis.

4. Alliteration: the repetition of a consonant sound in close connection.

    wind winnows

    won’t want

5. Symbolism: Symbolism means that the thing refers to some other thing.

    the wind is a symbol. It refers to the challenges in life. He is using wind as a symbol for the     adversities in our life.

6. Apostrophe: An inanimate object is directly being addressed by the poet

    “Wind come softly…”

 

RAIN ON THE ROOF

Poetic Devices

Alliteration: Repetition of the consonant sound

                         humid clouds hover, starry spheres, press the pillow

Transferred epithet: When an adjective is used to describe a noun but it actually refers to another noun

                        Melancholy darkness: here the darkness is not sad but the people are.

                        Dreamy fancies: here the person is dreamy and not the fancies.

Onomatopoeia: words formed from the sound it represents used for literary effect

                        Patter: sound of rain drops

                        Tinkle: sound of raindrops in the shingles or the tiles of the roof.

Personification: human characteristics given to inanimate objects

                        Darkness is melancholy and weeping like a sad person.

                        Recollections are weaving air-threads like a weaver.

Hyperbole: exaggerated statements

                      a thousand recollections

                      a thousand dreamy fancies  

 Rhyme scheme: Abcbdefe

 

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Poetic Device 

1. Alliteration: Repetition of consonant sound in closely placed words.

Hive for the honeybee: repetition of ‘h’ sound

Lake water lapping with low: repetition of ‘l’ sound

Hear…deep hearts core- repetition of ‘h’ sound

2. Repetition: use of same words or phrases for sake of emphasis.

‘I will arise and go now’: repeated in stanza 1 and 3. (These lines are linked to the Bible:  “ I will arise and  go to my father.” (Luke 15:18)

3. Personification: giving human characteristics to non-living objects.

Morning has been personified, as she lifts her veil of mist to reveal her bright face.

4. Assonance: repetition of vowel sound.

Gonow and go to: repetition of ‘o’ sound

5. Metaphor: indirect comparison between two objects or ideas to denote similarity.

Veils of the morning -the white mists of the morning are compared to a lady’s veil

6. Onomatopoeia: a word that represents the sound it makes.

Lapping: the word represents the sound it is making.

7. Anaphora: Repetition of same words at the beginning of phrases, clauses or sentences.

repetition of the word ‘I’ in lines 9 and 10

I will arise

I hear the

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