Personification: Personification is a poetic device where animals, plants or even inanimate objects are given human qualities. The poet has used this device in the following lines. The skull opened its mouth and said, ‘Talking brought me here.’ Here, the poet has personified the skull by giving theRead more
Personification:
Personification is a poetic device where animals, plants or even inanimate objects are given human qualities.
The poet has used this device in the following lines.
The skull opened its mouth and said,
‘Talking brought me here.’
Here, the poet has personified the skull by giving the human attribute “talking”.
Alliteration:
Alliteration is a literary device in which certain sounds are repeated at the beginning of words in a sentence or phrase.
The poet has used this device in the following lines.
Kagwa hurried home;
‘In the forest, I found a talking skull.’
The king was silent. Then he said slowly,
‘Never since I was born of my mother
Have I seen or heard of a skull which spoke.’
Consonance:
Consonance is a literary device in which the consonants are repeated in the neighbouring words whose vowels are different.
Kagwa hurried home;
Went to the king’s chair and spoke:
‘In the forest, I found a talking skull.’
The king was silent. Then he said slowly,
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The poet Edward Lowbury has not followed a certain rhyme scheme in the poem. But, in the first stanza of the poem certain words rhyme with the other. For instance, look at the following lines Kagwa hunted the lion, Through bush and forest went his spear. One day he found the skull of a man And saidRead more
The poet Edward Lowbury has not followed a certain rhyme scheme in the poem. But, in the first stanza of the poem certain words rhyme with the other. For instance, look at the following lines
Kagwa hunted the lion,
Through bush and forest went his spear.
One day he found the skull of a man
And said to it, ‘How did you come here?’
In this stanza the word “lion” rhymes with “man”. In the same way, the word “spear” rhymes with the word “here”.
The Huntsman Summary
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