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What Are The Poetic Devices Of The Poem Lady Of Shalott?

What Are The Poetic Devices Of The Poem Lady Of Shalott?
Alfred Lord TennysonEnglish PoetryLady Of Shalott Poem

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      1. Assonance: Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in the same line. For example, the sound of /i/ in “The willowy hills and fields among”.

      2. Parallelism: Parallelism is the use of components in a sentence that is grammatically the same, or similar in their construction, sound, meaning, or meter. This device is used in part three where “She left the web” is paralleling “she left the loom.”

      3. Consonance: Consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds in the same line such as the sound of /r/ in “Till her eyes were darken’d wholly” and /l/ sound in “His coal-black curls as on he rode”.

      4. Alliteration: Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds in the same line in quick succession such as the sound of /th/ in “They cross’d themselves, their stars they blest” and the sound of /w/ in “he pale yellow woods were waning”.

      5. Imagery: Imagery is used to make readers perceive things involving their five senses. For example, “There lay a parchment on her breast”; “She loos’d the chain, and down she lay” and “The pale yellow woods were waning”.

      6. Symbolism: Symbolism means to use symbols to signify ideas and qualities, giving them symbolic meanings that are different from the literal meanings. “Camelot” is the symbol of a fantasy world for the lady, “the Island” and “mirror” symbolizes isolation.

      7. Simile: A simile is a figure of speech used to compare something with something else to make the meanings clear to the readers. For example, “The gemmy bridle glitter’d free, Like to some branch of stars we see Hung in the golden Galaxy”. Here the horse’ bridle is compared to a star constellation.

      8. Anaphora: It refers to the repetition of a word or expression in the first part of some verses. For example, “She saw” is repeated in the last stanza of Part Three to emphasize the point. “She saw the water-flower bloom,/ She saw the helmet and the plume,”

      9. 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, “Like to some branch of stars we see/ Hung in the golden Galaxy.”

       

       

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