Describe all the poetic devices in the poem 'an elementary school classroom in a slum'
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Here are the poetic devices used with examples,
1. Repetition - Repeating words or phrases.
"Far far from gusty waves"
" Far far from rivers"
2. Alliteration - Repetition of initial consonant sounds.
"Far far from gusty waves - f, f, f
"Far far from rivers" - f, f, f
"From fog to endless night" - f, f
"like bottle bits" - b, b
"Break O break open" - b, o, b, o
"till they break the town" - t, t, t, t
3. Personification - An inanimate object, or animal, endowed with human qualities.
"twisted bones, reciting a father’s gnarled disease," - bone, an inanimate object is showing the symptoms of a disease by reciting it.
"Open-handed map, awarding the world its world"
"With ships and sun and love tempting them to steal—for lives that slyly turn in their cramped holes"
"Wear skins peeped through by bones"
4. Symbolism- Using symbols to convey a different meaning.
"Cloudless at dawn, civilized dome riding all cities"
"twisted bones, reciting a father’s gnarled disease,"
"for lives that slyly turn in their cramped holes"
"as big as doom."
"and make their world run azure on gold sands, and let their tongues run naked into books the white and green leaves open, history theirs whose language is the sun."
5. Simile - Comparison of one object to another
"Like rootless weeds,"
"and spectacles of steel with mended glass, like bottle bits on stones."
"shut upon their lives like catacombs"
6. Metaphor - Comparison of two objects by directly imposing one on another, though not physically possible.
"the hair torn round their pallor" - their hair isn't literally torn. Such a drastic comparison is made to signify the poor state the children were in.
"her weighed-down head."
"The paper seeming boy, with rat’s eyes. The stunted, unlucky heir of twisted bones, reciting a father’s gnarled disease," - this is an example of several metaphors put together in one sentence.
"His eyes live in a dream,"
"Where all their future’s painted with a fog,"
"A narrow street sealed in with a lead sky"
"Surely, Shakespeare is wicked, the map a bad example,"
"So blot their maps with slums as big as doom."
"This map becomes their window and these windows that shut upon their lives"
Regards
Here are the poetic devices used with examples,
1. Repetition - Repeating words or phrases.
"Far far from gusty waves"
" Far far from rivers"
2. Alliteration - Repetition of initial consonant sounds.
"Far far from gusty waves - f, f, f
"Far far from rivers" - f, f, f
"From fog to endless night" - f, f
"like bottle bits" - b, b
"Break O break open" - b, o, b, o
"till they break the town" - t, t, t, t
3. Personification - An inanimate object, or animal, endowed with human qualities.
"twisted bones, reciting a father’s gnarled disease," - bone, an inanimate object is showing the symptoms of a disease by reciting it.
"Open-handed map, awarding the world its world"
"With ships and sun and love tempting them to steal—for lives that slyly turn in their cramped holes"
"Wear skins peeped through by bones"
4. Symbolism- Using symbols to convey a different meaning.
"Cloudless at dawn, civilized dome riding all cities"
"twisted bones, reciting a father’s gnarled disease,"
"for lives that slyly turn in their cramped holes"
"as big as doom."
"and make their world run azure on gold sands, and let their tongues run naked into books the white and green leaves open, history theirs whose language is the sun."
5. Simile - Comparison of one object to another
"Like rootless weeds,"
"and spectacles of steel with mended glass, like bottle bits on stones."
"shut upon their lives like catacombs"
6. Metaphor - Comparison of two objects by directly imposing one on another, though not physically possible.
"the hair torn round their pallor" - their hair isn't literally torn. Such a drastic comparison is made to signify the poor state the children were in.
"her weighed-down head."
"The paper seeming boy, with rat’s eyes. The stunted, unlucky heir of twisted bones, reciting a father’s gnarled disease," - this is an example of several metaphors put together in one sentence.
"His eyes live in a dream,"
"Where all their future’s painted with a fog,"
"A narrow street sealed in with a lead sky"
"Surely, Shakespeare is wicked, the map a bad example,"
"So blot their maps with slums as big as doom."
"This map becomes their window and these windows that shut upon their lives"
Regards