... and the forming of coherent meaning. The poetic devices visible in these two poems are those of figurative language, including simile, metaphor and personification, sound techniques such as alliteration and onomatopoeia, and rhyme & rhythm. These devices all contribute in their different forms to our establishment of meaning from the poem. Firstly, we will look at the simplest of these devices, that ... trace back their entire family tree to convict origins, your blood origins are a very important part of your existence, as they are in most cultures. Sound techniques, including allitera...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Robert Frost uses the literary writing techniques of syntax, repetition of lines, simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, rhyme scheme and especially personification in his poems. The themes I have found in these select six poems support those methods and techniques. I would not be surprised if I read other examples ... no way that a birch tree could be like a woman. The line "Then he flung outward, feet first, with a swish," (pg. 894) is an instance where Frost uses the literary technique onomatopoeia, in which the word sounds like the noise it describes, using the word swish. In one part of the po...

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• Grade Level: High School

... explicit and brutal. Frost says "the buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard". Immediately, Frost conveys the dangerous, unforgiving nature of the saw through his use of onomatopoeia. Throughout the poem, there is sense of tension and drama, which culminates in a horrifying image of the boy trying to protect himself from the saw's wrath. He says "holding ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School