What are the poetic devices used in the poem Dreamers?
What are the poetic devices used in the poem Dreamers?
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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.
Drawing no dividend”
“Soldiers are sworn”
“flaming, fatal”
“Soldiers are dreamers”
“balls and bats”,
Metaphor is a literary device where two unrelated objects are compared to each other. The poet has used this device in the following lines.
“Soldiers are citizens of death’s grey land,
Drawing no dividend from time’s to-morrows.”
“In the great hour of destiny they stand,”
The first line is metaphorically referring to the battlefield. While the second line is referring to hope in the future.
Polysyndeton is a literary technique in which a conjunction appears over and over again to join different thoughts in one sentenceThe poet has used this device in the following lines.
Each with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows.
And mocked by hopeless longing to regain
Bank-holidays, and picture shows, and spats,
And going to the office in the train.
In these lines the conjunction “and” is repeated often to emphasise the word that is placed after that.
Repetition is a literary device where a certain word or phrase is repeated multiple times to emphasise the word or to create a rhythm.The poet has used this device in the following lines.
Soldiers are citizens of death’s grey land,
Soldiers are sworn to action; they must win
Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin
In the first stanza, the poet repeated the phrase “soldiers are”.
And in the ruined trenches, lashed with rain,
And mocked by hopeless longing to regain
And going to the office in the train.
Similarly in the second stanza the word “and” is repeated.
Irony is a literary device in which there is a contrast between expectation and reality. The poet has used this device in the following lines.
Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin
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