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    Lucifer better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven

    The poem A Photograph carries the message of mortality and transient nature of human beings. The whole poem is about loss, separation and sorrow. Unlike sea, we humans change quickly and die one day. In addition, the poem also carries the message of bearing the pain. In the poem, the mother learns tRead more

    The poem A Photograph carries the message of mortality and transient nature of human beings. The whole poem is about loss, separation and sorrow. Unlike sea, we humans change quickly and die one day.

    In addition, the poem also carries the message of bearing the pain. In the poem, the mother learns to live with the pain of loss (of her youth). Similarly, the poet has learnt to live with the loss of her mother. She is sad but still she is living.

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    Lucifer better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven

    Following literary devices/figures of speech have been used in the poem A Photograph: Alliteration: It is the use of the same sound at the beginning of words that are close together. e.g. "my mother’s hands", "stood still to smile", "terribly transient feet", "silence silences". Transferred Epithet:Read more

    Following literary devices/figures of speech have been used in the poem A Photograph:

    1. Alliteration: It is the use of the same sound at the beginning of words that are close together. e.g. my mother’s hands”, “stood still to smile”, “terribly transient feet”, “silence silences”.
    2. Transferred Epithet: It is a literary device in which an adjective is usually used to describe one thing is transferred to another. e.g. “washed their terribly transient feet”.
    3. Personification: It is the attribution of human characteristics to non-human things and animals. e.g. “The cardboard shows me how it was”. Here the cardboard is acting like humans.
    4. Oxymoron: It is the combination of two words that seem to be the opposite of each other. e.g. “laboured ease”.
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