The speaker does feel sad about the past as he realizes all the efforts and good deeds that he has done were all in vain as people ended up labeling him as a traitor. He says that once people paraded the streets to pay him respects but in present “There’s nobody on the house-tops now.” Read summaryRead more
The speaker does feel sad about the past as he realizes all the efforts and good deeds that he has done were all in vain as people ended up labeling him as a traitor. He says that once people paraded the streets to pay him respects but in present “There’s nobody on the house-tops now.”
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Following figure of speech is used in the poem, “The Patriot”:- 1) Personification:- is the attribution of human characteristics to animals and non-living things. For example, the roofs of the houses have been given human like characteristics by saying “The house roofs seemed to heave and sway.” 2)Read more
Following figure of speech is used in the poem, “The Patriot”:-
1) Personification:- is the attribution of human characteristics to animals and non-living things. For example, the roofs of the houses have been given human like characteristics by saying “The house roofs seemed to heave and sway.”
2) Metaphor:- is is used to compare two different ideas by bringing forth their similarity. For example the use of roses in the poem symbolizes the people’s love and affection towards the speaker.
3) Alliteration:- is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. For example, “ myrtle mixed” or “dropped down dead.”
4) Pathetic Fallacy:- is used when the speaker says “I go in the rain” meaning that the rain acting as a symbol washes away all his dignity, leaving him innocent.
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