... what it is that makes the persona glorify and compliment the season. This is done through a use of linguistic techniques or figurative language, including personification, auditory imagery, rhetorical questions, metaphors, similes and more. The main theme running throughout "Ode To Autumn" is the beauty of the season ( ... season does: Autumn is a "Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun, Conspiring with him", devising ways for the trees, and vines to bear fruit and flowers. The technique used here is personification; autumn is given a human quality of conspiring/scheming. Through this the...

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• Grade Level: High School

... (and often hardly less formal) structure of the poem's argument. Wit and conceit were both aspects of a mental set, shared by writers looking for analogies and connections between things. Conceit Definition: an idea or concept expressed in a clever way. Often took form in ingenious and consciously far-fetched metaphor. Conceits attempt to capture elusive insights ... elevated diction - first personഊ- dramatisation of abstracts eg. death, through personification - imperative mood - exclamation - complex syntax eg. use of inversion - language of argument eg. for, yet, but - imagery - rh...

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• Grade Level: High School

... one of the greatest American poets of his time, with works that cover themes varying from the reflection of human life situations in, and the personification of nature; to highly personal, personality driven poems. It is his ability to reach through his poems both the ordinary man and also a more ... description of the narrator and the fact that the feelings expressed by the person throughout the poem could pertain to either sex leave this question unresolved. For ease of writing I will refer to the narrator as being male. The theme of isolation and depression is enhanced by the use of l...

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• Grade Level: High School