DUST OF SNOW
Poetic Devices
1. Alliteration
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.
2. Symbolism
The ‘crow’ and ‘hemlock tree’
FIRE AND ICE
Poetic Devices
1. Alliteration
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favour fire.
2. Symbolism
Fire
Ice
3. Imagery
The poet has used fire and ice as imagery to create a picture in
the mind of the reader that the world will either engulf in fire or
freeze to death.
4. Metaphor
Here, the poet has used the terms ‘fire’ and ‘ice’ as metaphors for
the human emotions related to desire and hatred.
5. Rhyme scheme
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
Abaa
A Tiger In The Zoo
1. Alliteration
Stalks in his vivid stripes
Locked in a concrete cell
His strength behind bars
2. Repetition
Velvet quiet, quiet rage
Brilliant eyes, brilliant stars
3. Metaphor
‘On pads of velvet quiet’ – this phrase compares the paws
of the tiger to velvet because of the quality of softness of
velvet
Qu1. Identify the poetic device in the phrase ‘behind
bars’.
a. Assonance
b. Rhyme
c. Alliteration
d. Onomatopoeia
Qu2. A tiger in the zoo ignoring visitors’, is an example
of
a. Metaphor
b. Smile
c. Irony
d. Personification
How to tell wild animals
1. Alliteration
Or if some time when roaming round
If when you are walking round your yard
2. Repetition
He’ll only lep and lep again
Who hugs you very, very hard.
3. Irony
A noble wild beast greets you.
He’ll give you just one more cares.
The Ball Poem
1. Alliteration
Balls, balls will be lost always, little boy.
And no one buys a ball back. Money is external.
2. Symbolism
The term ‘ball’ is used as a symbol for the boy’s past
childhood days that are now gone. It is also a symbol of the
boy’s lost innocence that has turned him into a mature
person.
3. Repetition
The word "what" has been repeated.
The word "ball" has been repeated.
Amanda
1. Alliteration
Stop that slouching and sit up straight
Stop that sulking at once, Amanda!
2. Repetition
In the poem, the word ‘Amanda’ has been used several
times by the poet.
3. Metaphor
The poet had used metaphor in the stanzas 2,4 and 6
where he had compared Amanda to a ‘mermaid’ and
‘rapunzel’.
4. Allusion
Mermaid:- it is a mythological character that has body of
half girl and half fish.
Repunzel:- she was a princess character in a german
fairytale that had bright long hair through which, a prince
climbed up tower she was locked in and rescued her. She
was enslaved in a tower by an evil witch.
The Trees
1. Metaphor
The poet uses ‘trees’ metaphorically to represent
helplessness of woman in the patriarchal society. The
metaphor extends throughout the poem and therefor the
poem is a good example of ‘extended metaphor’.
2. Imagery
The trees inside are moving out into the forest.
The forest that was empty all these days
where no bird could sit …
Like newly discharged patients
half-dazed, moving
to the clinic doors …..
The glass is breaking
The trees are stumbling forward ….
Its pieces flash now in the crown of the tallest oak.
3. Simile
Like newly discharged patients.
Still reaches like a voice into the rooms.
The moon is broken like a mirror.
4. Personification
The trees inside are moving out into the forest.
No sun bury its feet in shadow.
All night the roots work.
Winds rush to meet them.
Fog
1. Imagery:
The poet has used imagery to create a view in the mind of
the readers how fog came over the harbor and the city and
how it retreated like a cat.
2. Metaphor
In the line ‘The fog comes on little cat feet’, Sandburg has
indirectly compared the fog with a cat.
In the same line, the poet says that fog leaving the city is like
a cat leaving a place quietly.
The tale of custard the dragon
1. Alliteration
The line ‘Belinda is as brave as a barrel full of bears’ is
an example of alliteration in the poem.
Belinda lived in a little white house.
And he held in his teeth a cutlass bright.
With a clatter and a clank and a jangling squirm.
And gulped some grog from his pocket flagon.
2. Repetition
Belinda tickled him, she tickled him unmerciful.
Suddenly, suddenly they heard a nasty sound.
Pistol in his left hand, pistol in his right
3. Metaphor:
chimney for a nose
And realio, trulio daggers on his toes
4. Simile
mouth like a fireplace
as brave as a barrel full of bears
5. Onomatopoeia
Similarly, ‘Meowch’ for cat’s sound
the words ‘clatter’, ‘clank’ and ‘jangling’ are examples of
onomatopoeia in the poem.
For Anne Gregory
1. Alliteration
Love you for yourself alone
The phrase ‘your yellow hair’ is an example of
alliteration.
Brown, or black
2. Metaphor
By those great honey coloured
Ramparts at your ear.
