Objectives

Personification: “I am dotted silver threads..”, ” I touch gently at the windows with my soft fingers”. Metaphor: “When I cry, the hills laugh”, “The field and cloud are lovers”. Alliteration: “daughter of Dawn”, “sigh of the sea”.

• Identify six poetic devices: alliteration, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, rhyme, and simile.
• Determine the purpose of poetic devices as either emphasizing meaning or the sound of words.
• Respond to a journal entry.
• Transfer learning while becoming the “teacher” of an assigned poetic device.

In poetry, repetition is repeating words, phrases, or lines. For example, Edgar Allen Poe’s poem ‘The Bells’ repeats the word ‘bells. ‘ By doing so, Poe creates a sing-song rhythm similar to that of bells ringing.

Rhyme is the repetition of syllables, typically at the end of a verse line. Rhyme is one of the first poetic devices that we become familiar with but it can be a tricky poetic device to work with. Matching content to a rhyming pattern takes a lot of skill.

Common Examples of Situational Irony

• A fire station burns down.
• A marriage counselor files for divorce.
• The police station gets robbed.
• A post on Facebook complains about how useless Facebook is.
• A traffic cop gets his license suspended because of unpaid parking tickets.
• A pilot has a fear of heights.

Poetic devices are a form of literary device used in poetry. A poem is created out of poetic devices composite of: structural, grammatical, rhythmic, metrical, verbal, and visual elements. They are essential tools that a poet uses to create rhythm, enhance a poem’s meaning, or intensify a mood or feeling.

A poetic device could be something as simple as repetition or rhyme. A figure of speech is a particular kind of device that extends beyond the literal meaning of the words used, creating some figurative meaning.

Figure of speech is a word or phrase used in non- literal sense for rhetorical effect. For example metaphors, simile, alliteration, hyperbole, irony, etc. Parts of speech are the different words phrases used to form a speech. Figure of speech is the expressions that are used to form the speech.

Imagery can be defined as a writer or speaker’s use of words or figures of speech to create a vivid mental picture or physical sensation. If writers just throw a surplus of images and figures of speech into their writing, it seems artificial and amateurish, and it can be annoying.

Personification is a figure of speech that attributes human nature and characteristics to something that is not human—whether living or nonliving.

Personification is a literary device that uses the non-literal use of language to convey concepts in a relatable way. Writers use personification to give human characteristics, such as emotions and behaviors, to non-human things, animals, and ideas.

Similes. A simile is a phrase that uses a comparison to describe. For example, “life” can be described as similar to “a box of chocolates.” You know you’ve spotted one when you see the words like or as in a comparison. Similes are like metaphors.

In these lines, the poet draws similarities between rain and music observing that the life-cycle of rain and song are alike. Both are perpetual in nature. Moreover, the sound of the soft-falling rain is in itself a kind of music. The song issues from the heart of the poet and travels to reach others.

From the sky it pours down on earth to wash the dry tiny particles and dust layers of the earth. The rain helps the unborn seeds to sprout. These seeds lay hidden and unborn under the layers of earth. Rain gives back life to its origin making it pure and beautiful.

1a : incapable of being felt by touch : intangible the impalpable aura of power that emanated from him— Osbert Sitwell. b : so finely divided that no grains or grit can be felt rock worn to an impalpable powder. 2 : not readily discerned by the mind impalpable evils.

The poem ,” The Voice of The Rain ” is written by Walt Whitman . The major theme of the poem “The Voice of the Rain” can be the fulfilment possible through the cycle of creation, be it the cyclic creation of life and freshness by the rain or the creation of a poem by a poet.

The poem, “Childhood” focuses on the theme of the loss of innocence. Markus Natten, the poet wonders when and where he lost his childhood. He ponders over this question and highlights the loss of innocence and faith in the quest of growing up.

In this poem, the line ” I am the poem of the earth ” means rain become the song of the earth. It gives life to all creators like song is relaxation to our heart. Here ‘I’ refers to rain.

Answer: Reck’d or unreck’d in the poem by walt whitman means whether you cared for the sound of the rains or not , whether somebody listened to the sound the rain made or not,it does not affect the rains and neither does it affects the poet.

Answer: The rains origin is actually the bottomless sea. The water evaporates and goes up in the sky in the form of water vapour and then comes down as rain and fills up the sea. So, it gives birth to its own origin. …

Answer: The message conveyed by the poem is that just like humans, animals too long for freedom and do not like being caged. For instance, the tiger in the poem longs to be in the jungle and he looks longingly at the shining stars in the sky. By looking at the stars, the tiger hope to be with nature some day.