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
THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE
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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