can anyone tell me if any figure of speech is used in all the poems given in flamingi
1. the elementary school classroom in a slum
2. my mother at sixty - six
3.aunt jenifeers tiger
4.keeping quiet
5.a thing of beauty
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Figures of speech used in “An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum” are as follows:
Run azure on gold sands, and let their tongues
Run naked into books, the white and open
History is theirs whose language is the sun.”
Figures of speech used in “An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum” are as follows:
- Simile: “Like rootless weeds”, “Like bottle bits”, “Shut upon their lives like catacombs”, “as big as doom”.
- Metaphor: “Paper-seeming boy”, “Rat’s eyes”, “A narrow street”, “language is the sun”.
- Synecdoche: “Reciting a father’s gnarled disease”.
- Paradox (two absolutely contrasting images): “A narrow street... stars of words”.
- Visual imagery: Last four lines of the poem-
Run azure on gold sands, and let their tongues
Run naked into books, the white and open
History is theirs whose language is the sun.”
- Alliteration: “Far far”, “Surely Shakespeare”, “From fog to endless night”.