praising for the country and express Mackellar’s deep relationship and passion with her land. Mackellar attains this response from the audience by using numerous language techniques such as; Juxtaposition‚ personification‚ sound patterns including alliteration and assonance‚ imagery‚ and paradox. The use of first person throughout the whole poem suggests that the theme of this poem has been evoked by personal experience. Mackellar introduces the idea of Australia’s distinctiveness firstly in the opening
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written in many different methods which allow readers to perceptibly understand its many aspects. The poet’s vivid description creates imagery to better stimulate the agony of a wretched wanderer. It is written with many uses of assonance along with alliteration. It also has two different points of view‚ one is the wanderer and the other is the narrator. Beyond that‚ the poet expresses the complex issues within the poem through a simplified form. With the use of such literary devices the poem precisely
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man is destroying it. The aggressive stutter of the alliterated ‘b’ sets the mood of this poem and emphasises Wright’s deep concern for nature’s suffering. These techniques are repeated in ‘Train Journey’‚ “your delicate dry breasts”. The use of alliteration and personification of the hills being describes as “dry” suggests that the hills have no nutrients left in them to provide life for the soil. These techniques highlight her true love for nature and her country. Rich and vital images are successfully
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Eve Merriam‚ she talk about the theme of how everyone is unique‚ and no one will ever be just like us. She uses alliteration and metaphor to expound on her theme. I have also reached a time in my life where I appreciate my uniqueness. The poem "Thumbprint" discloses the festivity of being a unique individual. The poet demonstrates the speaker’s thumb’s separateness by using alliteration like “whorls‚ whirls‚ wheels." These descriptions show us how the thumbprint is unique unto it‚ and permit the
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is born.” Yeats clearly suggests the points he is trying to get across to the reader. The oxymoron “terrible beauty” is used to show just how terrible but also how beautiful the result of the rising was. The use of sibilance “so sensitive” and alliteration “casual comedy” and “What is it but nightfall?/ No‚ no ‚no not night” help the reader to visualise what Yeats I trying to show. Yeats uses a stone in a stream as a metaphor for how stubborn the people who supported the Easter rising were‚ but this
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make the poem flow better. The literary device rhyme is used in the third stanza: Not enjoyment‚ and not sorrow‚ Is our destined end or way; But to act‚ that each to-morrow Find us farhter than to-day. The next literary device being used is an alliteration in the fifth stanza: Art is long‚ and Time is fleeting‚ And our hearts‚ though stout and brave‚ Still‚ like muffled drums‚ are beating Funeral marches to the grave. Those are two examples of sound devices used in this poem. Lastly‚ when you
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Definitions of Poetic Devices simile a comparison using "as" or "like" alliteration the deliberate repetition of consonant sounds assonance deliberate repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds hyperbole exaggeration for dramatic effect metaphor a comparison not using as or like when one thing is said to be another onomatopoeia "sound echoing sense"; use of words resembling the sounds they mean oxymoron a seeming contradiction in two words put together personification attribution
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Such as the name suggests‚ George Macbeth ’s poem focus on an owl‚ showing its many aspects and various characteristics as well as the poet ’s fascination through the several literary devices used in the poem. Through out the whole poem the poet uses enjambments even in the title itself. "Owlis my favourite"It is not a common way to start of a poem maybe contributing to the unusualness of the Owl‚ making him unique creature and an object of fascination. This continuation can also signify the constant
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“The Ballad of Rudolph Reed” by Gwendolyn Brooks: Comprehension Questions “The Ballad of Rudolph Reed” follows the journey of a black man and his family as they move into an all white neighborhood; being the first and only colored family in the community. Rudolph Reed desired improvement of his family’s environment‚ and decided it was best to move into a more sustainable future in their own home. Despite his only intention being to live a more fruitful life‚ the white neighbors attempt in creating
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’Still I Rise’ by Maya Angelou: the poem You may write me down in history With your bitter‚ twisted lies‚ You may trod me in the very dirt But still‚ like dust‚ I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ’Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns‚ With the certainty of tides‚ Just like hopes springing high‚ Still I’ll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops
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