1. Analysis - Poems of World War II
... poetry device to enhance the author's message of the danger of total domination is the tone. The tone is built up by word choice, syntax, and organization. The lack of adjectives describes a non-emotional tone. Sentence structure is given by subject-verb-object pattern, showed in the whole poem, intensifies a monotonous and neutral tone. And organization which brings gradually the tone ... lines, written in figurative language, suggests the speaker's possibility of becoming like the Germans, "and found in every German face behind the mask the mark of Cain" (Gershon 13-14), while she is ...
- Word Count: 1800
- Approx Pages: 7
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: Graduate