What are the poetic devices used in the poem Everyone Sang?
What are the poetic devices used in the poem Everyone Sang?
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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 poetic device in the following lines.
“find in freedom”
“Winging wildly”
“setting sun”
“was wordless”.
Metaphor is a literary device where two unrelated objects are compared to each other.
The poet has used this device in the following lines.
Everyone suddenly burst out singing;
The speaker compares people to birds who are singing loudly to express their joy after the end of World War I.
The poet has used this device in the following lines.
And I was filled with such delight
As prisoned birds must find in freedom,
Here, the speaker is comparing the relief of everyone to a caged bird which attained freedom.
Everyone’s voice was suddenly lifted;
And beauty came like the setting sun:
The speaker in these lines says that the people’s voice started rising. The overall beauty of the song is compared to the setting sun. When the sun starts to set it creates a beautiful view in the sky. In the same way their voices created a unique beauty in the atmosphere.
Symbolism is a literary device that uses symbols, be they words, people, marks, locations, or abstract ideas to represent something beyond the literal meaning.
And beauty came like the setting sun:
The speaker used the symbol of “the setting sun” to the end of World War I
Enjambment is a poetic device for the continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of poetry to the next. An enjambed line lacks punctuation at its line break, so the reader is carried smoothly without interruption to the next line of the poem.
The poet has used this device in the following lines.
And I was filled with such delight
As prisoned birds must find in freedom,
A caesura is a pause in a line of poetry that is formed by the rhythms of natural speech. It will usually occur near the middle of a poetic line but can also occur at the beginning or the end of a line.
The poet has used this device in the following lines.
Orchards and dark-green fields; on – on – and out of sight.
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