Dusting Poem Literary Devices

Following the theme of identity not through language but through the mark a person can leave on the world the poem “Dusting” was written. In its simplest form a signature is the easiest way for someone to expresses who they are and to leave their mark. In the poem this is the focus of the little girl who “each morning wrote [her] name on the dusty cabinet” and every other available surface in her house as her her mother to erased them all everyday (line 1-2,DUSTING). In order to emphasises every action in this poem, to hyten the importance of the simple signature that the little girl put into the dust there were many alliterations, assonance used with personification as the main tool. For example, “my name was swallowed into the towel (