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What Are The Poetic Devices Of The Poem Bright Star, Would I Were Stedfast As Thou Art?

What Are The Poetic Devices Of The Poem Bright Star, Would I Were Stedfast As Thou Art?
English PoetryJoseph Rudyard KiplingThe White Man's Poem

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      1. Assonance: Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in the same line such as the sound of /a/ in “Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite” and the sound of /e/ in “No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable.”

      2. Symbolism: Symbolism is the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings different from their literal meanings. In the sonnet ‘Star’ symbolizes desire.

      3. Consonance: Consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds in the same line such as the sound of /l/ in “To feel for ever its soft fall and swell” and the sound of /n/ in “Of snow upon the mountains and the moors.”

      4. Simile: It is a figure of speech in which an object or a person is compared with something else to make the meanings clear to the readers. For example, “Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art.” Here the poem is attempting to compare himself with the star.

      5. Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. For example, ‘And watching, with eternal lids apart’ as if the star is human that can perform certain actions.

      6. Imagery: Imagery is used to make readers perceive things involving their five senses. For example, “And watching, with eternal lids apart “; ” The moving waters at their priestlike task ” and ” Pillow’d upon my fair love’s ripening breast”.

      7. Enjambment: It is defined as a thought or clause that does not come to an end at a line break; instead, it moves over the next line. For example,
        “Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
        Of snow upon the mountains and the moors—
        No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable.”

       

       

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