“The sun played hide and seek with the clouds”.This can really add to a reader’s enjoyment of a poem as it changes the way he looks at things. Personification is giving human characteristics to objects, animals, or ideas. Alliteration can be fun, as in tongue twisters like: “Kindly kittens knitting mittens keep kazooing in the king’s kitchen.” Personification A good example is “wide-eyed and wondering while we wait for others to waken”. In alliteration, the first consonant sound is repeated in several words. The seven figurative language devices are:Ī simile is used to compare two things using the words “like” and “as.” Examples include:Ī metaphor sounds like a false statement, until you realize the similarities between the two things being compared. The reader’s senses are heightened and he will see things the way the poet does. In addition to imagery, there are six other devices that a poet uses to make the language of his poems figurative. Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere ĭestroyer and Preserver hear, O hear! Figurative Language With living hues and odours plain and hill: Her clarion o’er the dreaming earth, and fill (Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air) Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow The wingèd seeds, where they lie cold and low,Įach like a corpse within its grave,until O thou,Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves deadĪre driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being, The last of the examples of imagery poems is an excerpt is from Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley. That floats on high o’er vales and hills,Īnd dances with the daffodils. The first and last stanzas that show a progression of the poet’s emotions. Next is an excerpt from I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth. The Shark by Edwin John Pratt introduces the reader in detail to a shark, painting a picture so vivid you can practically see it in your mind’s eye: So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip Now folds the lily all her sweetness up,And slips into the bosom of the lake Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves Now lies the Earth all Danaë to the stars, Now droops the milk-white peacock like a ghost, Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font: Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white See if you can get a clear picture of the summer night he describes in this poem Summer Night: Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotelsĪnd sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells Alfred TennysonĪlfred Tennyson was another poet who made use of imagery. Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, When the evening is spread out against the sky You can almost see and hear the horse steaming and stamping and smell the steaks:Įliot also used imagery in The Love Song of J. This is an excerpt from Preludes, an imagery poem by T. Imagery intensifies the impact of the poet’s words as he shows us with his words rather than just telling us what he feels.
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