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    Following poetic devices have been used in the poem Autumn written by Kalidasa: Personification- Personification is a figure of speech in which an idea or thing is given human attributes and/or feelings or is spoken of as if it were human. Autumn being personified as a beautiful maiden is the main tRead more

    Following poetic devices have been used in the poem Autumn written by Kalidasa:

    1. Personification– Personification is a figure of speech in which an idea or thing is given human attributes and/or feelings or is spoken of as if it were human. Autumn being personified as a beautiful maiden is the main theme of this poem.
    2. Simile- A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two things. Example- “Birds greet her with their cooing glad/ Like a bracelet’s tinkling song.”
    3. Alliteration- It is the occurrence of the same sound at the beginning of closely connected words. Examples- “Bewitching smiles are shown”, “She seems a slender maid, who soon”, “Will be a woman grown”
    4. Metaphor– A metaphor directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. Examples- “Her silken robe is white moonlight”, “her face (the radiant moon)”
    5. Imagery– Imagery refers to the elements of a poem that engage a reader’s senses. The poet uses imagery throughout the poem to describe the beautiful characteristics of autumn.
    6. Enjambment– It is the continuation of a sentence to multiple lines. The second stanza is an example of enjambment.

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    The main theme of this poem is kindness. The young boy sees the old lady struggling and comes around to help her out of the kindness of his heart. He wants his own mother to be treated just as kindly someday. Somebody’s Mother Poem Summary

    The main theme of this poem is kindness. The young boy sees the old lady struggling and comes around to help her out of the kindness of his heart. He wants his own mother to be treated just as kindly someday.

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    Following figures of speech/literary devices have been used in the poem Somebody's Mother: Alliteration- It is the occurrence of the same sound at the beginning of closely connected words. Examples- “The woman was old”, “streets were white”, “the crowded crossing”, “the slippery street”, “without huRead more

    Following figures of speech/literary devices have been used in the poem Somebody’s Mother:

    1. Alliteration- It is the occurrence of the same sound at the beginning of closely connected words. Examples- “The woman was old”, “streets were white”, “the crowded crossing”, “the slippery street”, “without hurt or harm”, “His young heart happy”, “‘She’s somebody’s mother”, “someone, some time”, “somebody’s son”
    2. Simile- A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two things. Example- “Came happy boys, like a flock of sheep”
    3. Synecdoche- Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa. Example- “her anxious eye”
    4. Inversion– It is a change in the expected word order. Examples- “At the crowded crossing she waited long”, “Hastened the children on their way”, “Her aged hand on his strong young arm/ She placed”.

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    The rhyme scheme of the poem Somebody's Mother is  is aabbcc in stanzas 3 and 6 and aabb in all the remaining stanzas. Somebody’s Mother Poem Summary

    The rhyme scheme of the poem Somebody’s Mother is  is aabbcc in stanzas 3 and 6 and aabb in all the remaining stanzas.

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